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
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.
Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act
The bill strengthens detection, referral, oversight, and consistency in how trafficking is defined and addressed—likely helping more victims—but does so by creating recurring administrative costs, privacy risks, possible exclusions for people outside the TVPA definition, and implementation burdens.
National STEM Week Act
The bill raises the profile and coordination of STEM outreach through a National STEM Week, clearer definitions, and reporting — expanding exposure and school–industry linkages — but it relies on industry support and existing staff capacity without dedicated federal funding, risking uneven access and added administrative burdens.
ROTOR Act
The bill boosts aviation safety, oversight, and FAA–DoD coordination by expanding ADS‑B requirements, audits, and data sharing, but does so at significant cost and with real risks to operational flexibility, privacy/security, and legal adaptability.
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.
AI–WISE Act
The bill provides free, standardized AI training and privacy guidance to help small businesses adopt AI responsibly while avoiding new federal spending, but that budget constraint risks underfunding implementation, shifting agency resources, leaving digitally underserved businesses behind, and reducing advisory transparency.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill promotes AI adoption by small businesses with training and clearer definitions while preventing new federal spending — but its prohibition on additional appropriations risks undercutting implementation, shifting costs onto taxpayers or other programs, and leaving rural or vulnerable firms without adequate support or safeguards.
Flexibility for Workers Education Act
The bill clarifies and narrows when employers must pay for training—reducing employer payroll costs and preserving existing CBA terms—but increases the risk that workers will be unpaid for training (or pressured into unpaid training) and leaves some definitional ambiguity that could spur disputes.
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.
ARCA Act of 2025
This bill centralizes and professionalizes VA acquisition to improve procurement reliability, transparency, and cost control for veterans and taxpayers, but it raises near‑term administrative costs, transition risks, tighter hiring/vendor rules, and includes statutory deletions that could create legal uncertainty or reduce protections for veterans.
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill directs substantial new funding and program changes to expand prevention, treatment, and support for substance use and behavioral health—potentially improving access and capacity—while increasing federal spending, administrative requirements, and some legal/privacy risks that could complicate implementation and unevenly affect access across states.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, coordinated investments to strengthen military readiness, the defense industrial base, cyber/AI defenses, and housing/disaster resilience while expanding oversight and support for service members — but it substantially increases federal spending, administrative burdens, restrictions on research and certain rights, and conditions that could delay operations or concentrate executive authority.
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.
Employee Ownership Representation Act of 2025
The bill establishes new federal institutions and representation to promote employee ownership and transparency—potentially expanding worker wealth and preserving businesses—but it increases federal spending and raises governance, representation, and retirement-risk concerns if programs and safeguards are not carefully implemented.
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.
To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
The bill avoids near-term disruption by extending SBIR/STTR funding, pilots, and program flexibilities for one year to support small-business R&D and commercialization, but it adds modest federal costs and prolongs uncertainty and temporary oversight arrangements about the programs' long-term structure.
Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill aims to expand veteran access to care and improve health and workplace safety through targeted hiring and a systemwide smoke-free policy, trading off higher short-term costs, potential operational strain on the VA, and restrictions on on-site smoking for some veterans.
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.
TRANSPORT Jobs Act
The bill seeks to quickly connect veterans to supply-chain jobs through coordinated planning and employer guidance, but the compressed timeline and possible budget or regulatory consequences risk producing shallow outcomes and imposing added costs on taxpayers and employers.
Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve aviation safety by encouraging treatment, expanding examiner capacity, and speeding certification with more stakeholder input and oversight—but it shifts taxpayer funds, risks added evaluations/groundings and administrative costs, and could create privacy, consistency, or safety tradeoffs if implementation and oversight are imperfect.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens Coast Guard capacity, personnel support, maritime safety, and victim protections while increasing federal spending, adding significant administrative and procurement constraints, and introducing privacy, legal, and readiness tradeoffs that must be managed.
NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act
The bill creates a new NTIA office to expand rural broadband, improve network security, and accelerate tech commercialization, at the trade‑off of potential industry‑tilted policymaking, centralized federal influence, privacy risks from published data, and added taxpayer costs.
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.
Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025
The bill better connects CTE graduates with small-business support—improving hiring and student pathways—at the cost of adding responsibilities to SBDCs/WBCs without new funding and risking uneven benefits and resource diversion.
ThinkDIFFERENTLY About Disability Employment Act
The bill expands SBA support to improve employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for people with disabilities and assists small businesses while avoiding new authorized appropriations, but relying on existing budgets risks underfunding, delayed services, and shifted costs onto agencies, states, small businesses, or taxpayers.
Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Reporting Act of 2025
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill funds a targeted study to identify opportunities for domestic production of critical imported goods—providing useful data to strengthen resilience and guide local economic development—but it only produces analysis, not funding or enforcement, so benefits are indirect, may be delayed, and could lead to future fiscal trade-offs if acted on.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. supply‑chain resilience and clarifies federal coordination and protections for sensitive data while constraining new appropriations — but it risks higher costs for consumers and businesses, potential trade friction, funding and implementation shortfalls, and uncertainty from a 10‑year sunset.
