Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
The bill strengthens due‑process protections and provides an emergency return pathway for Americans abroad at the cost of reducing enforcement flexibility and potentially slowing child‑support collection while adding administrative burden.
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.
The bill temporarily protects and authorizes work for eligible Haitian nationals—stabilizing families and local labor markets—while imposing administration costs, potential strain on local services, and limiting DHS flexibility to tailor implementation.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public safety, transit security, and the cleanliness/appearance of Washington, D.C., while increasing federal oversight and enforcement—but these gains come with higher costs, potential resource diversion from services, jurisdictional friction with local authorities, and significant civil‑liberties and immigrant‑community impacts.
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
The bill strengthens immigration penalties and enforcement for federal fraud and benefit‑theft—helping protect public benefits and making prosecutions clearer—at the cost of removing discretionary relief, creating risks of deportation (including for admissions or marginal offenses) and increasing administrative burdens.
Kayla Hamilton Act
The bill standardizes and tightens placement rules and background screening to improve child safety and legal consistency, but does so in ways that shrink sponsor options, increase detention and privacy risks, reduce agency flexibility and public oversight, and can cause abrupt disruptions for children, families, and local agencies.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill increases penalties and centralizes immigration enforcement to deter repeat unlawful reentry and enable tougher prosecutions, but does so by expanding criminal exposure, reducing judicial discretion, raising detention and fiscal costs, and concentrating charging power in DHS with attendant politicization and coordination risks.
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.
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 to deter piracy and protect shipping and humanitarian flows, but it raises costs for taxpayers and shippers, risks diplomatic friction, and could harm innocents or limit transparency through broad sanctions and visa penalties.
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
The bill strengthens information-sharing and cooperation with DHS to speed custody transfers and removals, but it raises significant risks to immigrants' rights and community trust and may increase local government costs.
Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tools to identify, sanction, and disrupt forced organ removal and trafficking and improves legal clarity and international advocacy for victims, but does so at the cost of greater diplomatic friction, increased government and compliance costs, concentrated executive sanction authority, and potential impacts on travel rights and legitimate cross‑border medical care.
Falun Gong Protection Act
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
The bill creates a new federal offense and reporting regime that strengthens federal enforcement and oversight of vehicle-evading-arrest conduct (and may improve public safety and accountability), but it expands federal criminal and immigration exposure across a wide border zone, raises civil‑liberties and due‑process risks, and could increase incarceration and immigration enforcement costs.
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.
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 recognition of anti-transgender violence and calls for protections, data, and awareness that can benefit transgender people’s health and rights, but as a nonbinding measure it risks unmet expectations, possible state-level backlash, and potential fiscal implications if implemented into programs.
Condemning attacks on Federal law enforcement in the State of Illinois.
The bill strengthens federal enforcement authority to address violent crime and protect federal facilities, but does so at the cost of greater deportation risk for immigrants, reduced local control, higher public costs, and potential stigma and trust erosion in affected communities.
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 raises the national profile of Filipino American history and calls for language‑accessible support for veterans and disaster-affected communities, but it is symbolic and nonbinding—so tangible benefits will depend on follow‑up funding and legislation.
Expressing support for designation of the week of September 14 through 20, 2025, as "National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week".
The bill raises awareness of widespread adult literacy, numeracy, and digital-skill gaps — potentially driving beneficial adult-education, workforce, and prison-education investments — but risks cost pressures, stigmatizing affected groups, and misuse of findings for restrictive policies.
Requesting information on the Republic of Panama's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
The resolution increases transparency and congressional oversight of U.S. removals and U.S.-Panama security and financial arrangements, improving protections and accountability but risking diplomatic complications, potential cuts to security cooperation, and short-term strain on State Department staff.
An original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States possesses legal authority under existing law to take immediate and necessary action to secure the southwest border of the United States.
The resolution gives the executive branch clearer authority and operational tools to restrict entry and return certain asylum applicants to contiguous countries—potentially easing short-term border pressures and backlogs—but does so at the cost of reduced access to asylum, increased humanitarian risks for migrants forced to remain outside the U.S., and greater potential for broad diplomatic, legal, and economic fallout.
Stop Comstock Act
The bill modernizes and clarifies obscenity/import restrictions—reducing vague criminal exposure and making customs rules clearer—while risking enforcement gaps, reduced prosecutorial reach, litigation over cross-references, and transitional disruption for businesses.
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
The bill substantially strengthens health, privacy, and procedural protections for pregnant, lactating, and postpartum detained noncitizens — improving care and oversight — but does so at the cost of increased fiscal, operational, legal, and privacy trade-offs for DHS, facilities, contractors, and local governments.
No Hezbollah In Our Hemisphere Act
The bill strengthens U.S. ability to identify and disrupt Hezbollah's regional networks and increases partner capacity and congressional oversight, but does so at the cost of diplomatic friction, economic and administrative burdens, and potential civil‑liberties impacts—particularly for Latin American partners and U.S. border communities.
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
The bill reduces federal spending and keeps FEMA funds focused on traditional disasters by limiting FEMA support for immigration-related sheltering, but does so by cutting aid to undocumented people and shifting costs and health/safety risks onto local governments, nonprofits, and vulnerable individuals while narrowing FEMA's flexible response capacity.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act
The bill tightens admission and asylum rules to block individuals who materially supported the October 7 Hamas attacks and adds reporting requirements to increase oversight, trading stronger terrorism-related entry controls and transparency for heightened risk of wrongful exclusion of immigrants, reduced protections for some refugees, and higher enforcement costs.
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act
The bill strengthens pathways and protections that help states, hospitals, and foreign physicians recruit and retain clinicians (improving care continuity and immigration outcomes) but increases administrative burdens, compliance costs, potential competition for green cards, and program reliance on future congressional reauthorization that creates continuity risks.
No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act
The bill strengthens federal leverage and transparency to enforce immigration priorities—protecting cooperative jurisdictions and some victims—while risking large funding losses, reduced services, and eroded trust and due process for immigrants and communities in labeled 'sanctuary' jurisdictions.
Protecting Our Guests During Hostilities in Ukraine Act
The bill quickly extends predictable, lawful temporary protection and work rights to Ukrainians paroled under Uniting for Ukraine and clarifies status for agencies and courts, but it ties that protection to a time-limited parole that can end abruptly, excludes those not within the specified parole cohort, and does not create a pathway to permanent residency.
