Deo gratiam habeamus
Let us be grateful to God
Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Reporting Act of 2025
Prison to Proprietorship for the Formerly Incarcerated Act
The bill provides targeted mentoring, training, financing help, and local support to help people exiting federal prison start businesses, improving reentry outcomes but risking limited effectiveness due to systemic barriers, possible resource trade-offs, added taxpayer costs, and privacy concerns.
Relief for Survivors of Miners Act of 2025
The bill increases survivors' access to and financial relief from Black Lung benefits and establishes an evidence base for program fixes, at the cost of higher near-term liabilities for taxpayers and operators and potential trade-offs in attorney representation and short-term policy delays.
Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2025
The bill substantially strengthens and expedites financial and administrative support for miners and survivors—raising benefits, improving medical access, and tightening oversight—while raising costs for taxpayers and some operators and creating transitional administrative burdens and legal/rebuttal risks.
Justice for Breonna Taylor Act
The bill reduces surprise entries and strengthens privacy and safety for many civilians while improving protections for compliant agencies, but it risks hampering some investigations and imposes financial and operational strains on noncompliant or resource-limited law enforcement agencies.
Ohio River Restoration Program Act
The bill channels substantial federal funding and coordination to restore the Ohio River Basin and improve drinking water—creating jobs and greater transparency—while imposing new federal spending, potentially constraining existing infrastructure projects, and leaving non‑federally recognized tribes without direct program access.
SBIR/STTR Oversight Act
The bill aims to speed funding, improve transparency, and better target SBIR/STTR support for small businesses and innovators, but it does so at the cost of added administrative burden, potential short-term uncertainty, and a measurable risk to review rigor unless safeguards and extensions are implemented.
ACHE Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes stronger federal health, environmental monitoring, and oversight of mountaintop-removal mining—providing earlier detection and greater protection for nearby communities—at the cost of economic disruption for coal regions, higher compliance costs for operators, and added administrative and legal complexity.
Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition Act of 2025
The bill expands access to medically necessary human milk fortifier for eligible infants and reduces family out-of-pocket costs by requiring coverage without cost-sharing across Medicaid, CHIP, and many private plans, but it shifts costs to state Medicaid programs and insurers—potentially raising premiums, stressing state budgets, and causing implementation delays.