Audemus jura nostra defendere
We dare to defend our rights
22nd state to join the Union on December 14, 1819
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and oversight for many federal awards and improves data quality, but delivers incomplete coverage and imposes new administrative costs and transitional delays that leave some spending and lower-tier recipients still opaque.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
The bill funds broad improvements to military readiness, health care, industrial base resilience, and technology adoption—but does so at the cost of higher federal spending, increased administrative and reporting burdens, privacy and oversight risks, and potential supply‑chain and competition tradeoffs.
SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
The bill secures dedicated, predictable funding to improve airport security technology and operations, but does so by locking up fee revenue in ways that may raise passenger fees, reduce budget flexibility, and offer limited enforceability for some provisions.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by providing shark-warning alerts to protect beachgoers, but does so at the cost of more frequent alerts that could cause public alert fatigue and create operational burdens for emergency agencies.
ZOMBIE Act
The bill strengthens detection, consistency, and transparency around improper payments—benefiting taxpayers and oversight—at the cost of increased administrative and compliance burden, privacy and data‑sharing challenges, and some timing/visibility risks.
$2.50 for America’s 250th Act
The bill creates a new $2.50 Semiquincentennial commemorative coin that can generate collector interest and potential revenue and may streamline some cash transactions, but it also risks administrative and production costs (and equipment upgrade burdens) that could fall on taxpayers and businesses if sales or adoption don't cover expenses.
Directing the Secretary of the Senate to make a correction in the enrollment of the bill S. 1071.
ESTUARIES Act
The bill gives the Mississippi Sound priority federal consideration and delays implementation to avoid FY2025 spending, trading potential future funding and targeted restoration support for near-term fiscal restraint and a pause that postpones environmental action, grants, jobs, and creates planning uncertainty for local partners.
Requesting the Secretary of the Interior to authorize unique and one-time arrangements for displays on the National Mall and the Washington Monument during the period beginning on December 31, 2025, and ending on January 5, 2026.
The bill promotes nationwide 250th anniversary celebrations that can boost tourism and create shared civic experiences through federal coordination, but it risks concentrating attention and costs in Washington, DC and imposing public spending and infrastructure strains that may divert resources from other local priorities.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, targeted investments to strengthen U.S. military readiness, the defense industrial base, and service‑member benefits while imposing significant new budgetary commitments, compliance burdens, and policy tradeoffs that restrict some medical/research freedoms and complicate contractor/industry dynamics.
