Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Faster Labor Contracts Act
The bill trades faster, enforceable paths to first contracts and shorter dispute timelines—which can deliver quicker pay and stability for workers—for binding outcomes, compressed negotiation flexibility, higher potential costs to employers/consumers, and increased administrative burdens on employers and federal agencies.
Investing in All of America Act of 2025
The bill expands private-capital deployment to targeted small businesses by increasing SBIC leverage exclusions and caps and clarifying rules, but it reduces the ability to count public funds as private capital—weakening public leverage—and limits both the scope and immediacy of benefits for some firms.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Expanding the Surety Bond Program Act of 2025
The bill expands access to larger surety guarantees for small businesses and adds transparency and spending limits intended to preserve fund resources, but it also introduces rules and funding mechanics that could temporarily reduce guarantee sizes, constrain program operations, or deplete the revolving fund, trading immediate expansion for tighter fiscal controls and oversight.
New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficiency Act
The bill expands and standardizes support to help unemployed people start businesses and improves oversight, but it increases administrative demands on states and some claimants, risks reduced participant access if limits change, and may face implementation delays.
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.
Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act of 2026
The bill substantially raises boxer health, safety, pay, and transparency standards — improving protections and fairness for fighters and fans — but does so at the cost of higher compliance and staffing expenses that could reduce smaller promotions, raise consumer prices, strain medical staffing (especially in rural areas), and create implementation and accountability challenges.
Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act
The bill strengthens federal anti‑trafficking detection, referral, and oversight through a common legal definition, targeted DOL training, and annual reporting — but it risks excluding some victims, increasing privacy and administrative burdens, and producing rushed or uneven implementation if safeguards and resources are not adequate.
National STEM Week Act
The bill coordinates a National STEM Week and related guidance to expand student exposure, teacher support, and industry partnerships—potentially boosting STEM interest and local workforce pipelines—but does so with new costs, administrative burdens, equity and digital‑access risks, and only temporary authorization unless further funded and sustained.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI more safely by providing SBA-delivered, regularly updated voluntary guidance and cybersecurity best practices, but it relies on taxpayer-funded implementation and nonbinding recommendations that may leave some firms—especially resource-constrained or specialized ones—without adequate support.
AI–WISE Act
The bill offers accessible, technically vetted AI training and localized support to help small businesses adopt AI while avoiding new federal spending—but it leaves funding and accountability unclear and could produce vendor bias or force agencies to shift existing resources away from other priorities.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI by providing SBA guidance and a statutory AI definition while protecting immediate federal budgets, but the prohibition on new funding risks under-resourced implementation, delayed or uneven benefits, and program tradeoffs that could shift costs or reduce services.
Flexibility for Workers Education Act
The bill reduces employers' overtime liability by excluding certain changing/washing and voluntary training time from compensable hours — saving businesses money and reducing legal uncertainty for union contracts, but risking lower pay, pressured unpaid work, and uneven protections for nonunion workers.
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.
ARCA Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and professionalizes VA acquisition to improve reliability, oversight, and fiscal discipline—likely reducing cost overruns and improving services for veterans—while trading increased bureaucracy, upfront costs, transition risk, potential delays, and narrower contractor competition (plus the risk that some repealed authorities reduce existing veteran protections).
Protect America's Workforce Act
The bill preserves existing federal labor protections and contract terms—protecting employees and providing near-term budget predictability—while limiting agencies' ability to implement reforms and potentially maintaining higher personnel costs for taxpayers until contracts expire.
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.
Retire through Ownership Act
The bill increases predictability for ESOP fiduciaries and plan sponsors by endorsing a specific IRS valuation approach and limiting agency expansion, but it risks higher valuations, reduced appraisal scrutiny, and potential mispricing that could raise costs for buyers and plan participants.
Employee Ownership Representation Act of 2025
The bill expands federal support, formal representation, and outreach for employee ownership—potentially boosting worker wealth and preserving small businesses—while adding new federal offices, costs, and risks of politicization and bureaucratic duplication.
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.
To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
The bill preserves SBIR/STTR awards and commercialization pilots for one more year—supporting small businesses, researchers, and tech transfer in the near term—while adding modest federal cost and leaving longer-term uncertainty without permanent reauthorization.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill would substantially strengthen wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and responder capacity — improving safety and planning for many communities — at the cost of significant federal spending, expanded data‑sharing (and related privacy/cybersecurity risks), and added administrative burden that could slow near‑term deployments and alter local authority.
TRANSPORT Jobs Act
The bill aims to help veterans transition into transportation supply‑chain jobs and ease employer hiring through guidance and interagency coordination, but its advisory, unfunded design and rapid timeline risk limited real-world impact and potential costs for employers.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
This bill strengthens Coast Guard personnel, capabilities, victim support, and oversight while improving maritime safety, but does so at significant fiscal and administrative cost and with privacy, procedural, and operational trade‑offs that could burden personnel, operators, and taxpayers.
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.
