Cedant arma togae.
Let weapons yield to the toga.
44th state to join the Union on July 10, 1890
Common Cents Act
The bill reduces government minting and small-coin handling costs and speeds cash transactions while trading off small but widespread rounding losses for cash users, payroll/accounting complications, and modest compliance and numismatic-market impacts.
Redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the "Barbara L. Cubin National Historic Trails Interpretive Center".
The bill renames a local museum for Barbara L. Cubin, improving community recognition and record consistency while creating modest administrative costs and the potential for local controversy.
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026
The bill aims to speed and standardize location-based assistance and improve accessibility and oversight for 988, but it trades off meaningful privacy risks, implementation and funding costs, possible governance overreach, and limits on new spending that could constrain effective rollout.
To authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian Tribes.
The bill alters statutory leasing language that could clarify or change tribal leasing rights and revenues while imposing immediate administrative implementation burdens on the Department of the Interior — trading regulatory change (and uncertainty for tribes) for faster statutory effect and agency action.
Congressional Award Program Reauthorization Act
The bill preserves and extends the Congressional Award program for five years and gives program administrators more operational flexibility, at the cost of continued taxpayer funding, retroactive legal uncertainty for third parties, and some reduced specification-driven transparency and procurement uncertainty for recipients and vendors.
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment.
EARA
The bill speeds and enforces timelines for Interior appeals and strengthens judicial review (reducing uncertainty for land and resource users) at the cost of greater administrative strain on DOI/IBLA, higher litigation risk and expense, and potential disruption to regulatory implementation.
To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
The bill improves planning for reduced Glen Canyon hydropower, reliability, and species conservation but may raise costs for ratepayers/taxpayers, impose operational restrictions on water users, and introduce delays while agencies coordinate.
Designating November 20, 2025, as "National Rural Health Day".
The resolution raises the profile of rural health and creates a focal day for outreach, but it is symbolic and does not provide funding or policy changes to address the underlying problems.
Designating the week beginning on October 19, 2025, as "Coal Week".
The resolution highlights coal's role in powering the grid, supporting workers, and contributing to perceived national security benefits, but in doing so risks legitimizing continued coal reliance that could slow clean-energy transition, perpetuate local pollution harms, and justify continued public financial support.
