Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies Act
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. and allied critical-mineral and energy security and spur private investment through new coordination, financing tools, and diplomatic capacity, but it increases federal spending, concentrates decision-making authority, and carries environmental, trade-retaliation, and commercial-confidentiality risks that may raise costs for taxpayers, businesses, and local communities.
Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025
The bill centralizes federal tools and a coordination center to reduce organized retail and supply‑chain theft—likely lowering losses for businesses and improving prosecutions—but it expands federal enforcement and information‑sharing in ways that raise civil liberties, forfeiture, cost, and equity concerns.
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.
Protect Infant Formula from Contamination Act
The bill increases safety and transparency around infant formula—speeding detection, traceability, and oversight to protect infants and help prevent shortages—at the cost of greater regulatory and reporting burdens on manufacturers and the FDA, with potential short-term supply disruptions and increased costs for businesses, agencies, or taxpayers.
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.
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.
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.
Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025
The bill creates a single, faster-updated federal definition of 'critical' materials to give businesses and agencies clearer, quicker guidance, but it raises administrative costs, risks rushed coordination and legal conflict, and could expand regulatory obligations for additional industries.
Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
The bill strengthens U.S. energy supply-chain resilience and grid reliability through federal assessments and support, but that increased security comes with higher costs for taxpayers, higher compliance and project costs for industry, and the risk of local environmental impacts and market distortions.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill prioritizes faster domestic critical-mineral production, data, and permitting to boost jobs and supply-chain resilience, but it does so in ways that increase local environmental and health risks, reduce community input, and raise potential taxpayer liabilities.
Recognizing the achievements and contributions of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter to the national defense of the United States and its allies and honoring the dedication, service, and sacrifice of the United States Army aviators, maintainers, and support personnel who operate and sustain the Apache.
The resolution raises the profile of the Apache and domestic aerospace suppliers—supporting military interoperability and local manufacturing visibility—while remaining purely honorary and creating no binding funding, policy changes, or taxpayer protections.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill delivers sizable boosts to defense readiness, industrial-base resilience, allied support, and service-member protections while substantially expanding reporting and control authorities—trading greater capability, transparency, and domestic industrial investment against higher costs, heavier administrative burdens, compliance friction for contractors, and new privacy and operational‑rigidity risks.
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.
Made in America Manufacturing Finance Act
The bill directs clearer, larger financial support and potential procurement advantages to domestic small manufacturers (helping expansion and supply chains) while raising taxpayer exposure, creating uneven benefits across small businesses, and adding compliance and legal uncertainty for lenders and borrowers.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. defense readiness, industrial capacity, veteran/family supports, housing recovery, and cybersecurity—at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative and compliance burdens, constraints on flexibility and some civil‑liberties/privacy tradeoffs, and potential disruptions to research and international economic ties.
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill aims to guide reshoring and reduce regulatory barriers by producing a public, targeted Commerce study that could create actionable opportunities for manufacturers and rural communities, but it consumes federal resources and risks producing incomplete findings or encouraging protectionist or regionally uneven outcomes.
Strengthening Support for American Manufacturing Act
The bill sharpens federal focus, oversight, and targeted support for critical supply chains and manufacturing—improving coordination and resilience—while risking broader federal intervention, added compliance burdens, and potential taxpayer and implementation costs.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. military readiness, domestic industrial capacity, and service member supports through sweeping investments and new authorities—but does so at the cost of substantial new federal spending, added bureaucracy, tighter restrictions on research and rights in some areas, and risks of procurement or operational tradeoffs and local disruptions.
National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act
The bill creates a federal Manufacturing Advisory Council to connect manufacturers, workers, and distressed communities to Commerce with recommendations on workforce, training, and supply‑chain issues, but its advisory, nonbinding, time‑limited structure and lack of dedicated funding mean real benefits depend on voluntary adoption and future funding/reauthorization.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill aims to strengthen domestic supply‑chain resilience, manufacturing capacity, and coordination through federal planning, definitions, and roadmaps, but it raises costs for taxpayers and businesses, creates privacy and trade tensions, and faces funding and implementation uncertainty (including a 10‑year sunset and a prohibition on new spending) that may limit its practical impact.
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill aims to attract higher-quality foreign investment and boost advanced-technology leadership—strengthening supply chains and protecting IP—while risking trade retaliation, a smaller FDI pool, added compliance burdens, and uneven regional gains depending on how narrowly 'trusted' investors are defined and how reviews are implemented.
Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety and Oversight Improvements Act of 2025
Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act
The bill aims to boost domestic semiconductor production and supply-chain security by coordinating FDI attraction without new spending, but it risks higher costs, concentrated benefits, limited implementation capacity, and uncertain near-term results.
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill directs a public study that could identify reshoring opportunities to boost supply resilience and domestic jobs, but those gains may come with higher consumer prices, potential taxpayer costs, infrastructure strain for rural areas, and limits to the study's accuracy if firms withhold data.
Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act
The bill improves consumer battery safety and regulatory clarity by making industry battery standards mandatory and requiring incident reporting, but it raises compliance costs, may strain small manufacturers with a short deadline, could concentrate influence with standards bodies, and may leave commercial/fleet devices without the same protections.
Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill directs SelectUSA to coordinate and recommend ways to attract semiconductor foreign investment—aiming to strengthen domestic production, jobs, and supply-chain security—but does so with limited new funding, added administrative burdens, potential regional or firm-level favoritism, and risks of higher costs for taxpayers and consumers.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill centralizes efforts and definitions to strengthen U.S. supply‑chain resilience and support domestic manufacturing—potentially improving access to critical goods and jobs—but does so at the risk of higher costs, budgetary and administrative burdens, privacy and trade tensions, and program uncertainty from limited funding and a 10‑year sunset.
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.
Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025
The bill increases safety, accountability, and public transparency for mail-transport crashes through mandatory reporting and centralized data, at the cost of added administrative burden, potential contractor costs/sanctions, and modest privacy risks.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pratt & Whitney.
This resolution publicly honors Pratt & Whitney and emphasizes its workforce and defense role, but it is ceremonial only—providing recognition without funding, services, or changes in oversight.