Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
The bill secures dedicated, predictable funding to improve airport security technology and operations, but does so by locking up fee revenue in ways that may raise passenger fees, reduce budget flexibility, and offer limited enforceability for some provisions.
MAP for Broadband Funding Act
The bill centralizes and standardizes broadband funding data and definitions to reduce duplication, improve targeting, and speed deployment — but it increases administrative burdens, risks locking in mapping errors that could leave some communities behind, and raises privacy and flexibility concerns.
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill increases accountability and the likelihood that universal service funds build working broadband by restricting awards to proven providers and adding penalties, but it raises barriers and financial risks that can exclude smaller providers, increase costs, and slow deployment.
PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025
The bill boosts pipeline safety and modernization—providing funding, improved oversight, technical studies, and new inspection tools—while increasing federal spending, imposing significant compliance and administrative burdens, and narrowing public access to some safety information, trading faster modernization and industry cooperation against higher costs and reduced transparency/accountability.
Homeland Security and 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 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.
Smart Space Act of 2026
The bill trades lower upfront federal real estate spending and faster project delivery through private financing and consolidation (with increased public-facing transparency) against the risk of shifting long-term costs to taxpayers, disrupting employees, weakening advisory oversight, and deprioritizing lower‑utilization or rural facilities.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
The bill increases the likelihood the Arkansas Valley Conduit is built and makes repayment more affordable for local borrowers, but does so by shifting substantial up‑front and long‑term costs and risks to local governments and utilities while reducing near‑term federal receipts.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal earthquake resilience by expanding scope, clarifying roles, improving early warning, and providing multi‑year support, but many new expectations hinge on future appropriations and will raise costs and administrative burdens for governments and property owners.
SPEED Act
The bill speeds permitting and reduces duplicative reviews and litigation for project sponsors and agencies, but does so by narrowing NEPA's scope and judicial remedies in ways that reduce public participation, oversight, and protections for communities, tribes, and the environment.
EPermit Act
The bill aims to speed and standardize environmental reviews and improve transparency through interoperable digital systems and shared services, but doing so involves substantial upfront and ongoing costs, elevated data privacy/security and automation risks, and potential strains on agency capacity and equity for digitally underserved stakeholders.
Water Resources Technical Assistance Review Act
The bill makes EPA water‑assistance information and program coordination clearer and holds the agency to GAO recommendations—helping communities access funds and adopt cost‑effective technologies—while imposing reporting burdens, potential additional costs, and some privacy/reputational risks for small communities.
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.
IMPACT Act
The bill accelerates deployment of lower‑emissions building and road materials and boosts domestic research and manufacturing capacity, but requires federal funding, may raise short‑term material costs, risks uneven regional access and IP concerns, and offers limited long‑term certainty due to a short sunset.
DOE and NSF Interagency Research Act
The bill strengthens U.S. research capacity, workforce development, and technology deployment through coordinated federal R&D and funding, but does so at the cost of higher federal spending and increased security, equity, and administrative risks unless those are carefully managed.
Designating the week of May 18 through May 24, 2025, as "National Public Works Week".
The resolution raises the profile of public works—potentially improving justification for future public-health and preparedness investments—but it does not provide funding, so benefits depend on later policy and appropriations.
Alleviating Spaceport Traffic by Rewarding Operators Act of 2025
The bill provides targeted, transparent federal grants to improve launch/reentry site infrastructure and leverage local/private investment to enhance safety and access, but funding limits, a pilot sunset, and commercial‑availability rules mean some operators, communities, and noncommercial projects may be left without full support while taxpayers bear the program cost.
Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill trades large, near‑term federal funding and legally certain, quantified tribal water allocations and infrastructure for tribes (improving potable water access and long‑term planning) against significant concessions: tribes waive broad historic claims and accept operational limits, deadlines, federal oversight, cost‑shifts, and environmental and fiscal risks that reduce flexibility for tribes and increase federal and local exposures.
Save Our Forests Act of 2025
The bill quickly restores Forest Service staffing and keeps federally funded forest projects running—benefiting local economies, forest health, and reinstated workers—while reducing congressional oversight and budget flexibility and creating short-term administrative and funding trade-offs.
Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Active Transportation Safety Act
The bill makes it much easier and cheaper for states, tribes, and localities to fund bicycle/pedestrian and safety projects—improving safety for vulnerable road users—but increases federal spending and risks reallocating scarce transportation funds and favoring better-resourced jurisdictions over under-resourced communities.
Accelerating Broadband Permits Act
The bill aims to speed and prioritize broadband and communications permitting and increase transparency—particularly benefitting rural and mid‑sized projects—but it raises administrative costs, may strain review capacity (potentially shifting delays), and does not alter existing legal deadlines.
Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025
The bill trades substantially higher costs and regulatory burdens on mining operators—particularly small and marginal operators—for dedicated, stable funding and stronger oversight to clean up abandoned hardrock mines and reduce environmental and public‑health risks.
RTP Full Funding Act of 2025
The bill increases and better targets funding for trails—improving access, safety, and transparency—while risking reduced or delayed funding for other highway/transit projects and adding administrative burdens.
Assistance for Rural Water Systems Act of 2025
The bill uses federal grants, very low‑interest loans, and debt relief to make rural water systems more reliable and affordable—especially for disadvantaged households—while increasing federal spending and creating risks of moral hazard and administrative complexity.
Unplug the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Programs Act
The bill reduces federal spending, program complexity, and compliance obligations, but at the cost of halting a dedicated federal EV charging buildout—shifting costs to states, slowing EV adoption and emissions benefits, and risking equity and economic harms for local communities and contractors.
Water Infrastructure Subcontractor and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2025
The bill increases payment and performance security for WIFIA-funded water projects—protecting taxpayers, lenders, and construction workers—while imposing administrative review requirements and the potential for higher financing costs and project delays.
Fair SHARE Act of 2025
The bill establishes a new federal tax on EVs and batteries to create a steady funding stream for highways and transit, trading more reliable infrastructure funding for higher EV prices, potential slower EV adoption, disproportionate burdens on lower-income buyers, and added business compliance costs.
ASAP Act
The bill accelerates accessibility upgrades for older rail systems and promotes equity and user-informed planning by providing substantial federal funding, at the tradeoff of recurring federal cost, required local matches that may strain smaller jurisdictions, and a competitive design that may leave some communities and newer systems without help.
Western Water Infrastructure Fairness Act
The bill shifts most of the cost burden for eligible water projects to the federal government to make infrastructure upgrades affordable for disadvantaged communities and advance environmental justice, but it raises federal spending, may leave non-qualifying areas with higher local costs, and could create eligibility disputes that delay projects.
