Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill improves water-supply forecasting for states, utilities, and rural communities by funding advanced measurements and modeling, but does so with modest, time-limited federal dollars that are smaller than prior authorizations and increase Secretary discretion, raising scale and transparency concerns.
Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act
The bill boosts transparency and accountability around FERC licensing to help address multi‑year backlogs, but it imposes reporting costs and may increase scrutiny or litigation that could slow some projects.
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to build and modernize a VA medical facility in St. Louis—bringing significant improvements in local veteran care and construction jobs—while imposing a sizable immediate cost on taxpayers and carrying risks of overruns and reduced funding for other VA needs.
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026
The bill provides predictable federal funding, formal studies, and Tribal consultation to preserve and interpret historic battlefield sites—strengthening preservation capacity and education/tourism benefits—while imposing modest recurring federal costs and risks of local regulatory impacts, applicant uncertainty, and possible displacement of other preservation priorities.
Geothermal Energy Advancement Act
The bill seeks to speed and stabilize geothermal development on public lands—benefiting energy providers and nearby communities—while imposing federal costs, risking diversion of agency attention from other land uses, creating operational strains, and limiting some employee protections.
CLEAN Act
The bill speeds geothermal leasing and permitting to stimulate investment, jobs, and cleaner power, but does so by tightening agency deadlines which could strain resources, create project uncertainty, and risk insufficient environmental review.
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2026
The bill would establish and accelerate planning for a 287‑mile protected nonmotorized trail that expands recreation and local tourism benefits, at the cost of potential new land‑use restrictions for nearby owners and modest infrastructure and federal spending impacts.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill channels substantial new federal support and procedural changes to speed housing supply, disaster recovery, and veteran/tenant protections while increasing transparency, but it raises trade-offs in higher federal spending, larger administrative burdens, privacy and environmental risks, and potential impacts on rental supply and local counseling capacity.
Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act
The bill aims to speed and clarify veterans' access to appointments and temporarily preserve pension payments, but those gains come with new federal costs, operational strain and rollout risks (including privacy/interoperability concerns) that could disrupt care during implementation.
To designate the General George C. Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill secures public access and NPS planning support for the Marshall House as an affiliated site, but stops short of federal ownership or regulatory authority—improving preservation capacity while leaving funding and protection of the surrounding setting largely to local stakeholders.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill facilitates regional water infrastructure and utility maintenance while adding conservation acreage, but accelerates approvals and relaxes controls over federal land materials in ways that could harm public lands and reduce federal revenue/oversight.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025
The bill invests substantially in pipeline safety, oversight, and modernization—benefiting state and local authorities, operators, and nearby communities—while creating higher federal spending and compliance costs, narrowing some public access to safety data, and adding administrative and legal complexities that must be managed carefully.
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.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
The bill speeds and clarifies approvals to accelerate rural broadband and cell deployment and improve oversight, but raises risks to environmental review, public input, and agency resources that could lead to legal and land‑management tradeoffs.
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
The bill aims to speed and make more transparent communications authorizations on public lands—potentially improving rural broadband—while imposing some administrative costs and raising risks of local/environmental pushback and short-term coordination burdens.
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and beefs up SBIR/STTR commercialization support, procurement speed, and national‑security vetting—helping many small innovators scale—while increasing program costs, administrative burdens, and risks to competition, transparency, and privacy for some firms and taxpayers.
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.
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill channels federal grants to encourage reshoring and expand manufacturing capacity and training — potentially creating local jobs and skills — but increases federal spending and risks favoring certain firms or producing low-quality jobs if strong conditions are not attached.
Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025
The bill lets nonprimary airports and states use highway pavement standards to lower costs and speed approvals, but it raises safety and consistency risks and could still allow project delays through extended review periods.
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill secures multi‑year federal continuity and improved oversight for regional water restoration and monitoring—potentially improving environmental and public‑health outcomes—but does so while increasing federal spending, imposing cost‑share and administrative burdens that may disadvantage small local governments and nonprofits, and creating implementation or fairness tradeoffs.
Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
The bill aims to modernize aviation documentation to improve safety and efficiency through digital records and increased oversight, but it shifts costs and transition risks onto small operators and raises cybersecurity and implementation challenges that must be managed.
Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act
The bill opens U.S. airspace to quieter civil supersonic flight with firm FAA timelines and community protections against sonic booms, trading faster travel and industry certainty for possible local noise/traffic impacts, higher compliance costs, and added FAA implementation burdens.
Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act
The bill commissions an evidence-gathering study on satellite broadband that could improve connectivity and economic opportunity in rural ARC areas, but it introduces administrative costs and the risk of delaying on-the-ground broadband deployment while waiting for results.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. detection, enforcement, and international cooperation to curb IUU fishing and forced labor—benefiting fish stocks, lawful fishers, and consumers—but does so with new spending, compliance costs, privacy and due‑process risks, and potential diplomatic and operational tradeoffs.
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill speeds recovery, reopening, and environmental remediation for wildfire‑affected park areas by allowing expedited and sole‑source contracting, but it does so at the cost of reduced competition, higher taxpayer risk, and greater potential for waste or long‑term lock‑ins of incumbent providers.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
Gateway Partnership Act
The bill allows a Foundation to hold exclusive, limited events on Park grounds while protecting public access and shifting event costs to organizers, but it also shifts some liability away from the federal government, may restrict access during reserved times, could commercialize the Park experience, and creates short-term uncertainty due to a temporary pilot structure.
