Stop Stealing our Chips Act
The bill strengthens export-control enforcement and national security by incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers and speeding investigations, but it raises fiscal costs, administrative burdens, and confidentiality risks for businesses and taxpayers.
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
The bill standardizes definitions, enforces deadlines, digitizes communications, and creates oversight to speed and clarify mortgage processing on Indian trust land—benefiting borrowers, tribes, and lenders—while imposing administrative and technology costs, potential procedural rigidity, privacy risks, and the danger that strict deadlines or under-resourced enforcement could produce errors or bottlenecks.
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens FMC oversight, stakeholder input, data protections, and near-term port funding while increasing confidentiality barriers and compliance requirements that could reduce transparency, impose costs on smaller shippers and carriers, and concentrate agency discretion.
EPermit Act
The bill aims to speed permitting and reduce duplication through standardized, interoperable data and a central digital portal—helping agencies and applicants while increasing transparency—but it raises significant near‑term costs, privacy/security and proprietary risks, and implementation challenges that could constrain agency flexibility and affect environmental oversight.
To provide for the counting on January 6, 2025, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States.
Extending the life of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
The resolution keeps existing joint-committee authority and venue use to ensure a smooth, continuous inauguration process, but does so at modest taxpayer cost while limiting public input and creating temporary access/security restrictions.
Notifying the President of the United States of the election of a Secretary of the Senate.
Electing Jackie Barber as Secretary of the Senate.
Expressing gratitude to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Architect of the Capitol, the Sergeant at Arms, the Secretary of the Senate, law enforcement officers, emergency personnel, and volunteers for their support in making the Presidential Inauguration a success.