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
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill seeks to attract and channel 'trusted' foreign investment and tighten screening to protect technology and supply chains, but does so by expanding Commerce's authority in ways that could limit investment from some countries, raise costs, and create regulatory uncertainty for firms.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
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.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill offers practical, standards‑based AI guidance that could help many small businesses improve adoption and security, but its impact is limited by uncertain funding, voluntary uptake, and the risk of uneven distribution to underserved areas.
Designating November 2025 as "National Lung Cancer Awareness Month" and expressing support for early detection and treatment of lung cancer.
The resolution increases attention, education, and data-driven identification of barriers to improve lung‑cancer screening and treatment access, but it offers no operational funding or remedies—raising expectations, potential stigma, and the risk of straining local health systems or creating pressure for new public spending.
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.
National Landslide Preparedness Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves monitoring, forecasting, and targeted grant support for atmospheric-river, extreme-precipitation, landslide, flood and drought risks—helping emergency responders, water managers, tribes, and communities—but relies on limited appropriations, may shift costs or responsibilities across agencies and localities, and creates implementation, equity, privacy, and regulatory trade-offs.
VetPAC Act of 2025
Creates an independent commission to improve VHA performance and transparency—potentially strengthening care and oversight for veterans—while introducing open‑ended federal spending, added administrative burdens, and privacy/contracting risks.
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.
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
ASCEND Act
The bill expands NASA's ability to acquire and share commercial Earth‑observation data—boosting research, government operations, and U.S. space vendors—while creating potential taxpayer costs and limits on data access or downstream commercial reuse due to domestic sourcing preferences and vendor licensing.
Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act
The bill preserves and studies hospital-at-home programs—maintaining patient access and provider operations while funding research—at the cost of small fiscal shifts, potential higher Medicare spending if at-home care expands, and remaining safety, data-quality, and reporting burdens.
Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
This bill increases regulatory clarity, pediatric and transplant-focused initiatives, and transparency that can improve access and oversight, but it does so while raising federal costs, imposing new administrative burdens, and introducing risks that could delay pediatric data, weaken enforcement incentives, and shift incentives for drug developers.
Recognizing the seriousness of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and expressing support for the designation of September 2025 as "PCOS Awareness Month".
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military readiness, industrial capacity, health protections, and oversight through new funding, procurement authorities, and reporting — but at the cost of higher taxpayer spending, large administrative burdens, tighter limits on foreign collaboration and researcher freedoms, and several privacy/environmental tradeoffs that could slow operations or raise long‑term liabilities.
Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 20 through September 27, 2025, as "National Estuaries Week".
This resolution highlights and legitimizes the economic, safety, and environmental value of estuaries—helping build support and coordination for protection and restoration—while offering no direct funding and creating potential regulatory expectations and competition for limited resources that could raise costs for some businesses and leave some communities feeling disadvantaged.
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal monitoring, funding, and equity‑focused support to detect and respond to harmful algal blooms—improving public health protections for coastal, freshwater, and vulnerable communities—but does so with modest, time‑limited funds and new federal requirements that may strain local capacity, shift existing NOAA grant priorities, and alter how resources are allocated between national and local events.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and response capacity—particularly benefiting rural, tribal, and responder communities—while increasing administrative demands, raising data-security/privacy risks, and creating the potential for significant new federal spending that depends on future appropriations.
ACES Act of 2025
The bill commissions a data-based study that can clarify cancer risks for fixed‑wing aircrew and guide VA policy and prevention, but benefits will take time, may be limited by data quality, and require VA resources that could delay immediate relief.
Captain Paul W. 'Bud' Bucha VA Medical Center Act of 2025
The bill honors a veteran and permanently names a VA medical center—boosting recognition and some administrative clarity—but provides no new benefits for veterans while creating minor administrative costs and small privacy risks.
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
Middle Market IPO Cost Act
HALT Fentanyl Act
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025
The bill makes sinkhole risk information widely available and keeps it updated—improving planning and scientific understanding—but creates potential economic burdens for property owners and depends on congressional funding and adequate data/resources to be effective.
National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act
Creates a recurring federal manufacturing advisory council to strengthen training, supply‑chain resilience, and targeted recovery efforts, but it lacks dedicated funding, has a five‑year sunset, and includes industry representation and discretionary information sharing that could limit effectiveness and transparency.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025
ANCHOR Act
The bill boosts research-vessel capabilities, security, and crew health—benefiting scientists and institutions—but risks higher operating costs for universities, potential loss of local control, and delays tied to federal funding.
Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2025
The bill improves transparency and congressional oversight of federal infrastructure projects through semiannual, project-level public reporting and clearer contract documentation, but it imposes new administrative costs and disclosure risks that could burden award recipients, deter private partners, and divert agency resources.
