Under God the people rule
Stop Stealing our Chips Act
The bill strengthens export‑control enforcement and national security by financially incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers and speeding investigations, but it raises costs and administrative burdens for government and regulated businesses and carries risks to confidentiality and program funding stability.
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
The bill transfers and protects control of a culturally significant ~40-acre site to the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes—strengthening tribal sovereignty and clarifying jurisdiction—while reducing local tax revenue, limiting some federal oversight and future flexibility, and imposing transition costs for local governments and service providers.
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 and standardize environmental reviews and improve transparency through interoperable digital systems and shared services, but doing so involves substantial upfront and ongoing costs, elevated data privacy/security and automation risks, and potential strains on agency capacity and equity for digitally underserved stakeholders.
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 a centralized committee and established Capitol venues for the 2025 inauguration to ensure an orderly, low‑delay transition, but that continuity comes with ongoing administrative costs, limited public input on venue choices, and temporary security/access impacts at the Capitol.
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.
