Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and streamlines SBIR/STTR programs and strengthens commercialization and security safeguards—helping many small firms scale and get to market faster—while increasing federal spending, concentrating benefits among established participants, adding compliance burdens, and delaying some
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.
Smart Space Act of 2026
The legislation aims to cut federal real estate costs and boost transparency by encouraging private financing, faster consolidation, and mission-focused site use, but it risks ceding long-term control, increasing lifetime costs, reducing local service access, and weakening oversight.
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill enables federal support to attract relocated firms and bolster U.S. manufacturing—potentially creating jobs and planning capacity—while raising the risk of higher public spending, uneven geographic benefits, and incentives that produce temporary rather than lasting gains.
To direct the Administrator of General Services to submit a report to Congress on the state of the real estate portfolio of the Public Building Service, and for other purposes.
The bill increases transparency and data-driven management of federal real property to enable potential cost savings and stronger oversight, while imposing administrative costs, disclosure risks for tenant agencies, and a risk of disruptive relocations if actions are not properly funded or phased.
Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025
The bill lets small/nonprimary airports use state highway pavement standards to speed and cut the cost of repairs and projects and provides a timeline for federal review, but it trades off possible reduced pavement longevity, added safety/liability risks, and the potential for review-related delays.
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill extends and clarifies federal water and coastal programs to provide multi‑year stability, improved monitoring, funding flexibility, and oversight—at the cost of higher potential federal spending, added burdens on small/local recipients, eligibility limits tied to national‑security concerns, and possible administrative disruptions.
Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
The bill aims to reduce counterfeit aviation parts and speed approvals by moving to standardized digital records—benefiting safety, efficiency, and oversight—but it imposes transition and compliance costs, raises data‑security risks, and requires taxpayer funding and timely DOT action to realize the
Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act
The bill opens U.S. airspace to civil supersonic flight under strict noise conditions—boosting industry opportunities and protecting nearby communities from increased noise—but may raise development costs, create enforcement and legal challenges, and pressure the FAA to rush rulemaking.
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. 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.
End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act of 2026
This bill clarifies and standardizes access to expedited air‑travel screening—promoting equal treatment and clearer agency authority—while raising privacy and fairness concerns from expanded program definitions and TSA discretion, and imposing modest administrative and operational trade‑offs.
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill speeds recovery and restoration of North Rim facilities and services through time-limited, streamlined and noncompetitive contracting authorities and clearer responsibilities, but does so at the cost of reduced competition, increased fiscal and integrity risks, potential exclusion of nearby
Gateway Partnership Act
The bill clarifies who manages partnerships and protects public access, park resources, and taxpayers by shifting event costs to a designated nonprofit for a limited time, but it concentrates event control with a single private partner and reduces government liability—raising concerns about privatiz
To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.
The bill secures predictable federal funding and clearer governance to strengthen coastal observation and data sharing, improving monitoring and coordination for coastal stakeholders while imposing modest federal costs and potential administrative and implementation burdens on partner agencies and researchers.
DIGITAL Applications Act
The bill streamlines and clarifies how parties apply to install communications facilities on public lands—potentially speeding deployment and improving service—while raising equity concerns for digitally underserved people, fiscal costs, and environmental risks to public lands.
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and secures non‑Federal conservation funds and improves transparency for the Lower Colorado River program, but it limits flexible access to investment earnings and creates investment/timing risks that could shift costs to taxpayers or delay spending.
Vicksburg National Military Park Boundary Modification Act
The bill trades a small conveyance of federal land to Mississippi that can improve public access and visitor amenities (with retained use protections) for a modest reduction in federal park acreage and potential fiscal burdens on state/local taxpayers plus forgone sale revenue.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill directs substantial new federal support, coordination, and regulatory changes to speed housing production, preserve and repair affordable units, and strengthen tenant/homeowner protections—especially for disaster-affected and low-income households—but it does so while easing some environmental and procedural safeguards, increasing administrative burdens and funding uncertainty, and creating trade-offs that may dilute resources or disrupt markets.
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
ACRES Act
The bill increases public transparency and the potential quality of hazardous fuels-reduction work—helping communities and enabling oversight—but does so by imposing new data-collection burdens without added funding and carries risks of inconsistent reporting, misleading comparisons, and sensitive disclosures.
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
The bill aims to speed and standardize permitting for communications infrastructure on public lands—potentially improving broadband access and permitting predictability—but does so via studies and administrative changes that may delay action, raise taxpayer costs, create unequal prioritization, and,
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill improves regional water delivery and utility operations and expands protected lands, but it shifts some costs to taxpayers and raises environmental risks near the newly expanded conservation area unless mitigation and disposal siting are carefully managed.
Homeowner Energy Freedom Act
The bill reduces federal spending and administrative obligations by cutting targeted home-efficiency rebate and code-adoption programs, saving money and lowering program risk in the short term while making energy-efficiency upgrades less affordable, slowing emissions reductions, and shifting costs and responsibilities to homeowners, local governments, and small businesses.
Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
The bill increases U.S. energy supply-chain resilience and domestic production—reducing outage and national-security risks and creating domestic economic opportunities—while likely imposing new compliance burdens and raising short-term costs for consumers and taxpayers.
Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
This bill speeds and simplifies permitting for undersea cable work in national marine sanctuaries—reducing costs and outages—but does so by limiting NOAA’s sanctuary-specific permitting authority, which raises risks of weaker environmental protections, reduced local oversight, and inconsistent safeguards across projects.
$2.50 for America’s 250th Act
The bill offers a visible national commemoration and potential numismatic revenue, but it risks taxpayer exposure to production and rollout costs and transitional burdens for banks, retailers, and buyers of precious‑metal issues.
Bringing the Discount Window into the 21st Century Act
The bill aims to make the Fed's emergency lending (discount window) more reliable, transparent, and technologically resilient—helping banks and depositors—while imposing additional costs, tight remediation deadlines that could prompt rushed fixes, and some confidentiality that limits public scrutiny.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill speeds and prioritizes domestic critical‑mineral production, data, and permitting to strengthen supply chains and create jobs, but does so at the cost of increased environmental and public‑health risks, reduced local control, potential taxpayer liabilities, and diverted agency resources.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
This bill combines substantial new funding priorities for defense, foreign assistance, health, and infrastructure with broad transparency and accountability measures — but does so while imposing many reporting requirements, limits on agency flexibility, rescissions, and compliance costs that raise spending pressures, could slow rapid responses, and shift burdens onto agencies, providers, and recipients.
