Wisdom, Justice, Moderation
Establishing the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021.
The bill creates a time‑limited, empowered congressional investigation to produce a public report on January 6, strengthening fact‑finding and record access, but it increases federal spending, imposes legal burdens on subpoenaed parties, and risks perceptions of partisan control that could undermine public trust.
MERIT Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and speeds federal personnel actions—standardizing timelines, documentation, and recoupment authorities and potentially saving taxpayer dollars—but does so largely by narrowing employee appeal rights, compressing deadlines, and increasing financial risk and managerial discretion for federal workers.
New BANK Act of 2025
The bill trades stronger public transparency and useful planning information for applicants against added administrative costs, potential diversion of supervisory resources, and risks that publishing reasons or uneven data could expose sensitive information or distort behavior.
American FIRST Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and congressional/public oversight of U.S. participation in international financial regulatory forums—helping firms and the public plan and hold agencies accountable—at the cost of added administrative burdens, potential privacy concerns, and reduced confidentiality and negotiating flexibility in international discussions.
FCRA Liability Harmonization Act
This bill trades stronger private recoveries and class-action enforcement against lower litigation costs and greater certainty for businesses: it limits damages and fees to reduce liability exposure and possible downstream costs, but significantly curtails compensation and private enforcement for victims of FCRA violations, possibly shifting some enforcement burdens to the public.
Catastrophic Specialty Hospital Act of 2025
This bill enhances specialized care, payment stability, and research for a small but severely affected group of Medicare beneficiaries (spinal cord/brain injuries) while increasing Medicare costs, risking uneven geographic access, and putting financial pressure on smaller local LTCHs.
Portal for Appraisal Licensing Act of 2025
The bill modernizes and centralizes appraiser licensing and background checks to cut paperwork, speed transactions, and reduce state implementation costs, but concentrates sensitive data and creates privacy, cybersecurity, and cost-burden risks for appraisers and state governments.
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".
Standardizing the Marietta VA clinic's official name (while permitting alternative names) improves clarity and administrative consistency for veterans and providers but imposes modest one-time update costs and short-term staff workload to change materials and records.
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require certain disclosures by institutional investment managers in connection with proxy advisory firms, and for other purposes.
The bill increases transparency and fiduciary accountability in institutional proxy voting — likely better aligning votes with investors' financial interests — but imposes compliance costs and disclosure risks that may reduce small managers' ability to steward portfolios and could weaken representation for small investors.
TAILOR Act of 2025
The bill seeks to reduce burdens and modernize supervision—especially for community banks—improving clarity and local lending capacity, but does so at the risk of weaker oversight, reduced supervisory visibility, added implementation costs, and temporary legal uncertainty that could harm consumers or financial stability.