Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2025
The bill improves transparency and standardized reporting on major federal project cost and schedule problems—helping taxpayers and Congress detect and oversee overruns—but it creates new administrative costs, disclosure risks for contractors, and potential political pressure that could disrupt long‑running programs.
Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
The bill expands access and reduces blanket degree barriers in federal contracting—increasing competition and oversight—but shifts work and costs onto agencies and may cause short-term transitional confusion.
SECURE Grid Act
The bill improves preparedness, local‑distribution reliability, supply‑chain resilience, and federal accountability for energy security, but it does so at the cost of added state and utility compliance expenses, a potential reduction in federal flexibility, a time‑limited authority that creates planning uncertainty, and tradeoffs between sharing sensitive security information and public transparency.
EARA
The bill speeds and enforces timelines for Interior appeals and strengthens judicial review (reducing uncertainty for land and resource users) at the cost of greater administrative strain on DOI/IBLA, higher litigation risk and expense, and potential disruption to regulatory implementation.
Common Cents Act
The bill seeks to modernize coinage, authorize cash‑rounding rules, and increase Federal Reserve and Treasury oversight—potentially lowering minting costs and giving businesses legal clarity—while shifting small, cumulative costs onto cash users and imposing retrofit and administrative burdens on businesses and taxpayers.
Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill seeks to speed and better-account for development of ALS and rare neurodegenerative therapies through expanded funding, safety reporting, and an FDA action plan, while trading off higher federal costs, new burdens on researchers, and some uncertainty or potential delays for certain trials.
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
The resolution reinforces Congress's control to prevent unauthorized military action and preserves U.S. intelligence cooperation, but does so by constraining executive flexibility in crises and narrowing some transparency and oversight, which may slow responses and increase political friction.
PROOF Act
The bill increases federal access to state program records to strengthen fraud investigations and public accountability, but it raises significant privacy risks, creates compliance costs, and may constrain broader information‑sharing and oversight needed to detect complex fraud and support later legal or audit needs.
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026
The bill centralizes and strengthens federal capacity to detect, investigate, and recover funds from large-scale fraud—improving restitution and systemic protection—while raising costs, concentrating prosecutorial power, and increasing privacy risks unless strong safeguards are adopted.
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act
The bill aims to make BOP workplaces safer and more consistent by forcing OIG recommendations and national standards, but it may raise taxpayer costs, disrupt operations during rapid implementation, and could fall short if the Bureau does not fully comply.
Load Forecasting Enhancement Act
The bill pushes states and utilities to adopt more consistent, modern load‑forecasting practices that should improve reliability and reduce outages, but it does so through deadlines and new reporting requirements that will raise administrative costs and may impose ill‑fitting or uneven burdens—especially on small, rural, or multi‑state utilities and their customers.
Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act
The bill strengthens regulators' technology, coordination, and workforce to detect and manage financial risks earlier, while creating administrative costs and confidentiality/privacy risks and potentially imposing costly modernization pressures on supervised firms and their customers.
I&A Mission Reorientation Act of 2026
The bill would improve timely, two‑way intelligence support and regional coordination for state, local, Tribal, and territorial partners—boosting local threat detection—at the cost of increased privacy/surveillance risks and potential resource shifts or costs without guaranteed funding or exhaustive safeguards.
Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Analysis Training Act
The bill strengthens DHS analytic quality, workforce consistency, and privacy‑aware open‑source practices while increasing administrative costs, staff time burdens, inter‑component complexity, and risks of centralized sensitive data if safeguards are not rigorously applied.
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025
The bill extends whistleblower protections to HUD-funded contractors and grantees (including retroactively), boosting oversight and taxpayer protection but creating legal uncertainty for contractors, higher compliance costs for employers, and additional administrative burdens for HUD and grantor agencies.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill strengthens congressional oversight and accountability for northern border security through regular threat analyses, briefings, strategy updates, and performance metrics, but it increases DHS administrative burden and costs and reduces public transparency by relying on classified briefings.
Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Sunset Act
The bill increases oversight and long‑term preservation of congressional records through required reviews and reporting, at the cost of modest recurring administrative burdens and potential legal transition complexities for federal agencies.
GPO Modernization Act of 2026
The bill modernizes and centralizes government publishing—expanding free digital access, preservation, and cost-recovery mechanisms—while trading away some guaranteed printed access, concentrating authority, and shifting costs and administrative burdens onto agencies, libraries, and taxpayers.
Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act
The bill standardizes and speeds staffing, succession, and personnel rules for the Library of Congress, GPO, and Copyright Office—improving continuity and civil‑service alignment—while trading broader Senate/public oversight and some procedural safeguards for concentrated congressional leadership control and faster, more centralized decisionmaking.
To amend chapters 4, 10, and 131 of title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep those chapters current and to correct related technical errors.
The bill increases transparency, Inspector General independence, and legal clarity in federal oversight (including improved prison oversight), but does so at the cost of added reporting and compliance burdens, potential operational and privacy/security risks, and modest added expense for taxpayers.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill increases standardized public reporting and oversight of federal awards (including OTAs) and directs GAO clarity on contractor reporting, but it imposes administrative and compliance costs, leaves room for security or commercial nondisclosure, and may produce temporary gaps depending on which agencies are covered and implementation timing.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill increases federal situational awareness and accountability for Northern Border security through recurring analyses, strategy updates, and performance measures while avoiding a direct new appropriation — but it raises civil‑liberties and transparency concerns and may struggle to be implemented effectively because it provides no new funding, shifting costs or causing delays.
Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers' Benefit Program Expansion Act of 2026
The bill speeds and simplifies benefit access for public safety officers, 9/11 survivors, and their families through deadlines, interim payments, reliance on expert certifications, and stronger GAO-driven reforms — but does so at the cost of higher near-term taxpayer spending, greater administrative burden, and increased risk of erroneous approvals or legal friction unless resources and safeguards are carefully managed.
Ensuring Federal Purchasing Efficiency Act
The bill creates useful predictability for agencies and businesses by fixing a regular three‑year schedule for acquisition threshold updates starting in 2028, but it reduces flexibility to respond quickly when economic conditions demand faster adjustments, risking misaligned procurement and higher costs.
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act
The bill increases transparency and standardized reporting around large troubled federal projects—helping taxpayers and policymakers spot and fix problems—but imposes administrative costs on agencies, risks disclosure complications for sensitive programs, and could prompt politically driven delays that raise costs.
Main Street Capital Access Act
This bill leans toward easing burdens, increasing predictability, and boosting transparency for banks—especially smaller institutions—while accelerating approvals and limiting some supervisory tools, a trade‑off that may lower costs and preserve local banking but increases litigation, administrative costs, and potential risks to competition, depositor safety, and taxpayers.
Putting Patients First by Strengthening Provider Accountability in FECA Act
The bill strengthens FECA program integrity and protects taxpayer funds by allowing suspension of payments to convicted providers, but it risks disrupting care for injured federal employees and creating administrative burdens or unfair exclusions if suspensions are applied too broadly or before full review.
Federal Relocation Payment Improvement Act
The bill simplifies and speeds relocation payments for federal employees and reduces agency administrative burden, but risks undercompensating some movers and creating uneven treatment across agencies while adding reporting costs.
Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2026
The bill strengthens and broadens whistleblower protections and official accountability for those working on public contracts, at the cost of higher compliance and legal burdens, potential increases in disputes, and some programmatic delays.
Failing Bank Acquisition Fairness Act
The bill increases transparency and legal guardrails to limit risky consolidations and ensure statutory compliance—strengthening oversight and protecting competition and deposit insurance funds—at the cost of added administrative burdens and stricter standards that could slow emergency rescues and reduce resolution flexibility, potentially raising costs in a crisis.
