Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
Count the Crimes to Cut Act
The bill improves transparency and oversight of federal criminal law for the public, businesses, and policymakers, but it does so without new funding and creates administrative and privacy risks for agencies and individuals.
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.
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens privacy, security, and oversight for children, teens, and families—reducing targeted advertising and increasing transparency—but does so at the cost of added compliance burdens and costs for businesses (especially small ones), possible reduced access to some services for users,—
Servicemembers’ Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act
The bill clarifies and expands FCRA protections to explicitly cover all service members — improving credit protections and consistency across federal law — but introduces a one-year delay and some compliance costs and short-term regulatory uncertainty that could affect agencies, creditors, and (ind)
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
James T. Woods Act
The bill strengthens federal protections and prosecutorial tools to deter and punish online sexual extortion, coercion, and threats against minors—improving child safety and clarity for prosecutors—while expanding federal criminal reach in ways that raise free‑speech, privacy, due‑process, and fiscal concerns.
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency by forcing agencies to publish evidence, guidance, and—when allowed—open data to support rulemaking, but it does so without new funding and raises privacy and implementation-capacity risks that could burden agencies and affected individuals.
ACERO Act
The bill aims to strengthen wildfire response and responder coordination through NASA-led research and procurement limits that reduce security risks, but it could restrict access to affordable drones, raise privacy concerns, and divert or duplicate federal resources.
Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
The bill strengthens program integrity and reduces improper federal payments by sharing death records (saving taxpayers money and stopping duplicate payments) but raises privacy risks, risks of wrongful payment interruptions, ongoing state costs, and possible delays that may blunt some fraud-prevention gains.
Raising awareness and encouraging the prevention of stalking by designating January 2026 as "National Stalking Awareness Month".
The resolution raises awareness and encourages better campus, victim, and criminal-justice responses to stalking—potentially improving recognition and services—but it provides no funding or mandates and could increase policing or public anxiety without delivering immediate, concrete support.
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.
No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act
The bill increases U.S. leverage, oversight, and protections for women and minorities by conditioning engagement and requiring reporting, but it risks disrupting humanitarian assistance, reducing diplomatic flexibility, exposing operational risks, and imposing administrative and potential fiscal costs.
VSAFE Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and strengthens VA fraud reporting, training, analytics, and interagency coordination to better protect veterans and maintain benefits in the short term, but does so without new staff funding and with potential privacy, single‑point failure, and bureaucratic risks—and only provides a brief, temporary extension of benefits authority.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency and funds a wide array of national-security, foreign‑aid, and global‑health programs while imposing large mandated spending floors and many procedural limits that raise taxpayer costs, add administrative burdens, and reduce agency and diplomatic flexibility.
Coercion and Sexual Abuse Free Environment Act
The bill strengthens federal protection and prosecution options against those who coerce minors via interstate or online means—closing gaps for non‑physical coercion—but expands federal reach and uses broad definitions and heavy penalties that raise due‑process, privacy, and state‑federal balance concerns.
Child Predators Accountability Act
The bill strengthens prosecutors' authority and tools to combat sexual depictions of minors—potentially improving child safety and prosecution consistency—while raising substantial risks of overbroad prosecution, increased government burdens, and chilling effects on lawful speech and archival work.
Remote Access Security Act
The bill strengthens national security and clarifies government authority over remote access to controlled technologies while increasing compliance costs, legal risk, and the potential for operational disruption or slower rulemaking that could dilute or delay protections.
DEFIANCE Act of 2025
The bill substantially strengthens legal and privacy protections and monetary remedies for victims of nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, but does so at the risk of chilling lawful expression, imposing significant costs and liability on platforms and defendants, and creating transparency and moderation complexities.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military, industrial, and security capabilities and expands supports for service members and communities — but does so at the cost of large new spending, heavier administrative and compliance burdens, constrained operational flexibility in some cases, and notable privacy, environmental, and civil‑liberties trade‑offs.
Do No Harm in Medicaid Act
The bill narrows federal Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for minors—reducing federal spending and clarifying reimbursement rules—but at the cost of significantly reduced access for low-income minors, fewer willing providers, and potential rights and administrative consequences.
Protect Children’s Innocence Act
The bill aims to protect minors by criminalizing non-consensual or non-medically necessary genital and bodily alterations and establishing federal enforcement and narrow medical exemptions, but it also bans common gender-affirming treatments, expands federal criminal jurisdiction into family medical decisions, and risks reducing access to care and creating legal uncertainty for providers and families.
Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act
The bill increases PBM and drug‑price transparency and expands options for small employers, potentially lowering drug costs and broadening benefits access, but it also imposes sizable compliance and privacy burdens, risks market disruptions and reduced state consumer protections, and contains policy constraints (including on abortion coverage) that may narrow options for vulnerable enrollees.
Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act
The bill increases transparency and oversight of claimed FARA §3(h) exemptions, improving public and congressional visibility, while imposing modest compliance costs and raising the possibility of increased legal scrutiny for organizations that claim those exemptions.
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act
The bill increases transparency and oversight of foreign influence by requiring more detailed disclosures, but does so at the cost of added compliance expenses and potential privacy/safety risks—especially for small firms and individuals associated with foreign principals.
ENFORCE Act
The bill strengthens federal tools to prosecute and limit circulation of obscene child sexual imagery and to monitor offenders—improving protections for children and public safety—but it expands federal reach and enforcement powers in ways that raise pretrial liberty, fair-trial, reintegration, coordination, and fiscal concerns.
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.
Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens FMC oversight, stakeholder input, data protections, and near-term port funding while increasing confidentiality barriers and compliance requirements that could reduce transparency, impose costs on smaller shippers and carriers, and concentrate agency discretion.
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Reauthorization Act
The bill increases public access to and preservation of historical civil‑rights investigative records—boosting transparency, research, and prospects for justice—while raising privacy risks for individuals named in those records and creating additional costs and administrative burdens for governments and taxpayers.