L’étoile du Nord
The star of the North
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill secures multi‑year federal continuity and improved oversight for regional water restoration and monitoring—potentially improving environmental and public‑health outcomes—but does so while increasing federal spending, imposing cost‑share and administrative burdens that may disadvantage small local governments and nonprofits, and creating implementation or fairness tradeoffs.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill expedites and prioritizes domestic hardrock and critical‑mineral production—boosting jobs, manufacturing access, and supply‑chain resilience—while raising near‑term environmental, health, fiscal, and governance risks from faster permitting and expanded activity on public lands.
Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
The bill formally honors the 1980 'Miracle on Ice' team and expands museum access and replica availability while largely avoiding new taxpayer spending, but it is mainly ceremonial, offers limited substantive public benefit, and creates small financial and administrative risks for the Mint and taxpayers.
Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025
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.
SPUR Act
The bill improves transparency and standardization in reporting new small‑business prime contract entrants while preserving a cost‑neutral posture for taxpayers, but it may shift implementation costs onto agencies (and thus taxpayers) and could undercount some firms, creating trade‑offs between clearer data and funding/coverage gaps.
Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a message from the President.
Superior National Forest Restoration Act of 2025
The bill accelerates and guarantees multi-decade mining leases and fast-tracks permitting to provide regulatory certainty and revive development for mining interests, at the cost of greater local environmental and health risks, reduced judicial oversight, and potential taxpayer liability for remediation.
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to exclude providers convicted of certain fraud-related criminal offenses from participation in Federal health care programs on a permanent basis.