Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill increases transparency, oversight, and predictability for DHS spending and grants and protects certain workforce and enforcement capacities, but it imposes substantial reporting requirements, financial penalties, and statutory limits that reduce agency flexibility, may divert funds from infrastructure and operations, and could constrain operational options and oversight norms.
Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill increases federal involvement in DC to improve public safety and public‑space upkeep and transparency, but it raises taxpayer costs, risks to civil liberties (especially for immigrants and minority communities), potential local‑federal tensions, and trade‑offs around firearms access.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, data, and international cooperation to reduce illegal fishing and forced labor—bolstering fisheries sustainability and supply‑chain integrity—but does so at the cost of higher enforcement and diplomatic risks, greater compliance burdens for seafood businesses, and increased federal spending.
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
The bill aims to protect taxpayers and strengthen benefit-program integrity by making benefit-fraud convictions a bar to immigration relief, but it risks deterring eligible immigrants from seeking needed benefits, imposing permanent immigration penalties (including for minor or admitted conduct), raising due-process concerns, and increasing enforcement burdens and costs.
Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
The bill intensifies pressure on Iran’s oil- and petrochemical-driven financing—strengthening U.S. national security and enforcement—while trading off higher economic costs for American consumers and businesses, increased compliance and legal risks, and potential diplomatic and humanitarian side‑imp
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, short‑term funding continuity, and implementation clarity while imposing new reporting and procedural controls that raise administrative costs, constrain agency flexibility, and add fiscal and operational trade‑offs that will largely fall on taxpayers and frontline,急
Kayla Hamilton Act
The bill increases safety and legal clarity for unaccompanied children through stricter vetting and immediate statutory placement rules, but does so at the cost of shrinking sponsor options, causing delays and administrative burdens, reducing agency flexibility, and weakening procedural transparency and public oversight.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, coordination, and victim support to disrupt offshore scam compounds and recover funds, but does so at the cost of heightened diplomatic friction, privacy and due‑process risks, increased public and private-sector costs, and uncertainty from time-limited authorities.
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill strengthens enforcement by imposing harsher penalties and centralizing authority to reduce recidivism and improve prosecutorial clarity, but it significantly expands criminal exposure for noncitizens—raising civil‑liberties and justice concerns, increasing taxpayer costs, and straining courts and prisons.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Jeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025
The bill increases immigration consequences for DUI/DWI convictions to improve public road safety and simplify enforcement, but does so at the cost of potentially deporting people for low-level offenses, creating legal inconsistency, deterring reporting and treatment, and raising court and taxpayer burdens.
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and provides policymakers with regional and historical data on alleged higher‑risk noncitizen encounters to improve oversight and targeting, but it raises substantial risks of stigma and profiling, may expose sensitive operational details, and imposes ongoing reporting costs on DHS and taxpayers.
Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools and international coordination to disrupt maritime piracy and protect shipping and humanitarian aid, but it raises civil‑liberties and due‑process concerns, increases compliance and potential economic costs, and may create expectations of action without guaranteed resources.
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
The bill enforces federal immigration-alignment by restricting SBA field office presence and protecting affected employees through reassignment, at the cost of reduced local service access for small businesses, employee disruption, administrative expenses, and strained federal–local relations.
Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
The bill increases U.S. ability to name, document, and sanction perpetrators of forced organ harvesting and to protect victims, but it raises risks of diplomatic friction, administrative and compliance costs, and travel or rights impacts without guaranteed new funding or fully specified procedural safeguards.
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
This bill strengthens federal enforcement, protections for border-area policing, and transparency for prosecutions of vehicle-evading conduct, but it expands federal criminal and immigration consequences — including use of admissions, mandatory penalties, and a wide geographic scope — that raise civil‑liberty risks, costs, and burdens on courts and immigration systems.
Laken Riley Act
The bill strengthens federal detention authority and gives states new tools to force federal immigration enforcement—potentially improving public safety and state-level remedies—but does so at the cost of broader mandatory detention, higher taxpayer and agency expenses, more litigation, court delays, and risks to due-process and nationwide enforcement consistency.
Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act
The bill strengthens protections for U.S. personnel and denies financial and diplomatic support to the ICC to deter prosecutions, but does so at the cost of straining diplomacy, weakening international justice mechanisms, imposing immigration and economic effects on individuals and businesses, and reducing some transparency and legal predictability.
Laken Riley Act
The bill centralizes and accelerates federal detention and enforcement for certain property offenses and gives states an expedited tool to sue over federal immigration practices—trading more consistent, quicker enforcement and faster state remedies for higher detention costs, due‑process risks, and potential operational disruption and inconsistent enforcement across states.
Supporting the goals and principles of Transgender Day of Remembrance by recognizing the epidemic of violence toward transgender people and memorializing the lives lost this year.
The resolution raises federal visibility of violence against transgender people and strengthens the factual basis for supportive services, improving potential protections and resources, but it also risks political and legal backlash and cost objections that could delay or complicate implementation.
Recognizing the month of October 2025 as Filipino American History Month and celebrating the history and culture of Filipino Americans and their immense contributions to the United States.
The resolution provides symbolic recognition and encourages education, veteran acknowledgement, and targeted disaster- and health-related attention for Filipino Americans, but it is nonbinding and may raise expectations for further, potentially costly, legislative remedies without itself creating legal rights or guaranteed funding.
Expressing support for designation of the week of September 14 through 20, 2025, as "National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week".
The resolution raises awareness of widespread adult- and family-literacy needs with potential benefits for employment, health, and reentry, but it is purely declaratory without funding or targeted implementation—creating expectations and possible policy pressures while risking diluted impact across many groups.
Reaffirming that immigration officers under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security are not authorized to arrest, detain, interrogate, or deport United States citizens and must implement stronger measures to prevent future wrongful enforcement actions against such citizens.
The resolution increases civil protections and may boost public trust and officer safety, but it could slow some immigration-related actions and require modest implementation costs.
Condemning the Government of the People's Republic of China for engaging in transnational repression.
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
The bill substantially strengthens medical protections, limits detention, and increases transparency for pregnant, lactating, and postpartum detainees—improving health and rights—but does so at appreciable fiscal and administrative cost and with operational, privacy, and oversight trade-offs that may complicate enforcement and implementation.
MEGOBARI Act
The bill seeks to strengthen U.S. support for Georgia's defense and democratic reform—with new tools, planning, and conditional incentives—while trading off higher U.S. spending, administrative burdens, legal and civil‑liberties risks, and the possibility of increased tensions with Russia.
Falun Gong Protection Act
The bill increases U.S. scrutiny, transparency, and targeted accountability for alleged state-sponsored organ harvesting while protecting U.S. import flows, but it raises the risk of diplomatic or economic retaliation, business and immigrant impacts from sanctions/listings, and administrative and oversight trade-offs.
Justice for Jocelyn Act
The bill tightens immigration enforcement—expanding detention, electronic monitoring, and expedited removals—to reduce absconding and speed removals, but it increases surveillance and costs, burdens government operations, and heightens risks to due process and family/economic stability.
Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill increases federal-local cooperation on immigration and protects federal funding for compliant jurisdictions, but it does so by reducing local accountability and civil remedies for immigrants and by threatening significant funding losses and service disruptions in jurisdictions labeled as 'sanctuary.'