Excelsior!
Ever Upward!
PROTECT Act
The bill prevents taxpayer-funded naming of federal assets for Donald J. Trump and restores prior names to align with existing rules, at the cost of administrative work and potential one-time renaming expenses borne by agencies and taxpayers.
Helicopter Safety Parity Act of 2026
The bill trades substantially stronger, airline-level safety, oversight, and regulatory clarity for rotorcraft operations (reducing crash risk and increasing public confidence) against higher compliance, retrofit, enforcement, and administrative costs that may push small operators from the market and raise fares or reduce service in some areas.
Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act of 2025
The bill directs significant new federal funding, reporting, and centralized coordination to combat antisemitism and bolster campus and community safety, but it increases taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, and raises real risks to free‑speech, privacy, and agency flexibility.
MORE Act
The bill substantially reduces federal criminal exposure for cannabis conduct, opens federal economic supports and justice‑reinvestment for affected communities, and improves data‑driven policymaking — but does so while creating large administrative costs, legal uncertainty, potential enforcement and national‑security tradeoffs, privacy risks, and ongoing barriers for equity unless implementation and safeguards are carefully managed.
End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act
The bill reduces potentially misleading drug advertising and nudges clinicians toward evidence-based prescribing — improving patient safety and lowering some promotion-driven costs — but increases compliance and legal burdens that could raise drug prices, limit patient access to manufacturer information, and create market and regulatory uncertainty.
Refuge From Cruel Trapping Act
The bill reduces harm to people and wildlife and protects biodiversity while preserving tribal subsistence, but it removes a lethal wildlife‑control tool for some users and creates criminal penalties, geographic inconsistency, and administrative strain in implementing and enforcing the ban.
American Royalties Too Act of 2025
The bill creates a new, enforceable resale royalty stream to give visual artists ongoing income from secondary-market sales while balancing caps and payment rules — but it raises costs and administrative burdens across the art market, limits some heirs' access, removes a notice mechanism that aids certainty, and delays fixes through a multi‑year review and phased implementation.
Improving Helicopter Safety Act of 2025
The bill trades clearer, faster protections and reduced helicopter noise/accident risk around the Statue of Liberty (while preserving emergency access) for significant economic disruption to helicopter tour/charter businesses and added burdens and timing risks for government regulators.
West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. leverage, transparency, and legal clarity to deter and punish settlement-related violence and protect civilians, but does so at the cost of increased compliance and enforcement burdens, potential diplomatic friction, and risks to civil liberties and humanitarian engagement.
Children’s Health Protection Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and funds a sustained, pediatric-focused EPA effort to reduce children's environmental health risks—improving policy, school and clinical engagement, and continuity—while increasing federal expenditures, creating potential administrative overlap, and leaving some funding and oversight outcomes dependent on future appropriations and implementation choices.