Excelsior!
Ever Upward!
Protecting Social Security Act
The bill preserves benefit continuity and improves local access for many beneficiaries by creating automatic funding backstops and new field offices, but it raises near‑term federal costs, could reduce pressure for long‑term solvency reforms, and shortens congressional deliberation over how to pay for it.
Working Families Housing Tax Credit Act
The bill mobilizes new and expanded tax credits plus targeted grants/loans to spur more affordable housing and tenant protections—especially in rural and underserved areas—but does so at notable federal cost and with added regulatory, compliance, and project‑cost risks that could shift who benefits and slow implementation.
Mortgage Rate Reduction Act
The bill expands access to and transparency around federally insured second liens to help homeowners (including veterans) preserve affordability and obtain financing, but it increases taxpayer exposure, administrative burdens, privacy risks, and the potential for greater household leverage and foreclosure risk.
Pro-Housing Act of 2025
The bill creates new federal tools—grants, loans, and access to surplus federal land—to help communities build affordable, transit‑oriented housing and protect residents from displacement, but its limited funding, matching requirements, administrative burdens, and potential local/federal cost shifts mean the benefits may be uneven and smaller than the nationwide need.
Stopping Pharma’s Ripoffs and Drug Savings For All Act
The bill accelerates patient access to lower‑cost generics and reduces public drug spending by narrowing some patent protections, but it raises risks to innovators' revenues and increases legal uncertainty that could dampen future incremental drug development.
Deliver Housing Now Act of 2025
The bill expands access to MTW for at least 15 more PHAs—potentially enabling more flexible, locally tailored housing assistance for low-income renters—while raising modest fiscal costs and creating risks that some tenant protections or standard rules could be changed under demonstration authority.
Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025
The bill gives subscribers faster relief and rebates when agreed video programming is withheld during carriage disputes, but risks higher long-term consumer costs and implementation/legal uncertainty from rushed rulemaking and potential litigation.
Lower Grocery Prices Act
The bill mandates a GAO study of 20 years of CPI 'food at home' trends that could help lower household food costs and improve policy decisions, but it may also lead to regulatory or compliance pressures on businesses and uses GAO resources that could be diverted from other oversight work.
To express the Sense of Congress with respect to safety of medication abortion and Federal preemption of State restrictions on dispensing medication abortion, and for other purposes.