Oro y plata
Gold and silver
Northern Montana Water Security Act of 2025
The bill secures federally recognized water rights and provides substantial, long‑term funding and governance tools to improve tribal water and sanitation infrastructure, but does so at considerable federal cost while requiring tribal waivers, limiting some economic options and review rights, and creating oversight and implementation risks.
Allied Defense Sales Act
The bill aims to speed and expand multinational defense sales to strengthen interoperability and U.S. defense exports, but it raises trade-offs in higher taxpayer costs, oversight vulnerabilities, and risks of sensitive-technology proliferation.
Public Lands in Public Hands Act
The bill secures and clarifies public access to certain federal lands and preserves longstanding program authorities, but it restricts some land conveyances and increases administrative hurdles that can slow transfers, complicate infrastructure projects, and reduce local development opportunities.
Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal support, data, and coordination for wildlife connectivity while preserving State/Tribal authority and public access — but it increases federal spending and administrative complexity and narrows flexibility (especially toward big‑game priorities), which may create costs and burdens for taxpayers, agencies, and some private landowners.
Fill the Lake Act
The bill secures stable summer lake levels that benefit recreation and shoreline property owners, at the cost of reducing reservoir management flexibility—potentially harming downstream water users, emergency/flood/drought responses, and increasing federal implementation burdens.
SROS Act
The bill gives targeted federal tax relief to retired military and law-enforcement who serve as SROs to encourage experienced school security, but it reduces federal revenue and adds administrative and compliance burdens while providing a benefit limited to specific groups.
FIR Act
The bill trades increased regulatory certainty and modest taxpayer/agency savings by limiting automatic program-level ESA reconsultations for higher ecological risk, potentially weakened species protections, shifted burdens to project-level permitting, and reduced public oversight.
Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act
The bill secures long-term protections for rivers, public access, tribal uses, and downstream water quality—benefiting recreation, agriculture, and ecosystems—while imposing development limits, added federal review, and constraints on some future hydropower and local infrastructure projects.
COVID–19 Military Backpay Act of 2025
The bill restores pay and benefits to service members discharged over COVID-19 vaccine noncompliance and compensates reservists, at the cost of increased federal spending and expanded legal and administrative obligations for the Department of Defense.
Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act
The bill protects scenic, recreational, tribal, and ecological values and preserves local tourism and some hydropower benefits, but it imposes new federal rules and permitting constraints that can limit certain land uses, development options, and local flexibility.