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 provides multi‑year continuity, clearer federal coordination, expanded monitoring, and predictable cost‑sharing to advance regional water restoration and public‑health monitoring—but it raises taxpayer costs, can burden smaller local partners with matching and compliance obligations, and creates implementation, equity, and administrative tradeoffs that could delay or complicate projects.
Critical Mineral Dominance Act
The bill prioritizes faster domestic critical-mineral production, data, and permitting to boost jobs and supply-chain resilience, but it does so in ways that increase local environmental and health risks, reduce community input, and raise potential taxpayer liabilities.
Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
The bill formally honors and preserves a historic U.S. sports achievement and enables cost-recovered commemorative medal sales and clearer legal status for collectors, at the trade-off of small direct Treasury costs, modest administrative burdens, and a risk that Mint funds or taxpayers could indirectly absorb shortfalls or diverted resources.
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 restores and expedites mining leases and permits to provide industry certainty and faster development, at the cost of increased environmental and water-quality risks, reduced judicial oversight, and a greater potential financial burden on taxpayers.
FRAUD Act
The bill tightens state-level duties, reporting timelines, and criminal penalties to detect and deter fraud involving federal funds—strengthening federal investigative pathways and program integrity—while raising risks of funding disruption, legal exposure and administrative burdens for state/local officials and named recipients, and limiting some federal removal remedies under federalism protections.