Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".
The bill clarifies and standardizes the VA clinic name in Marietta—improving veterans' ability to find and be referred to care—while imposing only minor costs and short-term administrative work to update records and materials.
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
The bill ends twice-yearly clock changes to preserve later evening daylight and state time choices, trading convenience and evening benefits against darker winter mornings, business/schedule disruption, and administrative transition costs.
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
The bill protects firearms retailers' privacy and limits firearm-specific transaction labeling while preserving payment-security functions, but it shifts enforcement to the federal level, preempts local regulation, and leaves retailers without a private lawsuit option — potentially slowing remedies and imposing costs on banks.
Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025
The bill strengthens preparedness and infrastructure resilience for extreme-cold terrorist scenarios and speeds congressional follow-up, but it requires public and private resources and risks rushed conclusions and reduced public transparency.
Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act
The bill improves fairness, transparency, and accountability in SBA loan decisions by requiring conflict-of-interest certifications and timely rulemaking, while imposing modest costs, extra compliance work for employees, and the risk of short-term delays for borrowers.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill accelerates recovery for wildfire-affected farmers and private landowners by expanding and increasing advance payments and eligibility, but increases federal costs, oversight burdens, and repayment/timing risks for recipients.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by warning beachgoers about potential shark threats, but it risks alert fatigue and creates additional operational burdens for local emergency officials and regulators.
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
ARTIST Act
The bill protects Alaska Native subsistence practices, cultural commerce, and tribal consultation while increasing evidentiary transparency in specific challenges — but it narrows which handicrafts qualify for interstate sale, may constrain subsistence if stocks are restricted, and limits state authority to regulate related materials.
No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026
The bill strengthens protections against FAFSA identity fraud and increases accountability—helping protect eligible students and federal funds—but it introduces privacy risks, can delay aid for some students, and raises administrative costs for schools and taxpayers.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill increases agencies' ability to pause and segment payments to reduce improper payments and provide payees with contest rights, but it does so at the cost of creating payment delays, administrative disruption for frequent-pay recipients, and potential inconsistency in how rules are applied.
Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act
The bill strengthens fraud detection, oversight, and recovery for large federal relief and recovery funds—potentially saving taxpayer dollars—but does so by centralizing large datasets and expanding data sharing, which raises privacy, security, compliance, and transitional cost risks for recipients, governments, and agencies.
Secure America Act
The bill provides large, multi-year funding to expand border and immigration enforcement capacity and technology (improving staffing and some investigative capabilities) at the cost of substantial taxpayer outlays, increased enforcement-driven risks for immigrant communities, and heightened privacy and local-government tensions.
Faster Labor Contracts Act
The bill speeds and enforces first-contract bargaining—likely raising wages and reducing prolonged labor disputes for newly unionized workers—but does so by imposing faster timelines and binding processes that increase costs and reduce flexibility for employers (especially small businesses) and add federal administrative burdens.
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to build and modernize a VA medical facility in St. Louis—bringing significant improvements in local veteran care and construction jobs—while imposing a sizable immediate cost on taxpayers and carrying risks of overruns and reduced funding for other VA needs.
Ukraine Support Act
The bill significantly strengthens U.S. military, economic, sanctions, and oversight tools to support Ukraine and pressure Russia — at the cost of sizable taxpayer exposure, potential domestic economic disruption (notably through sweeping trade measures), heavier administrative burdens, and reduced executive flexibility in urgent foreign‑policy actions.
Stop Child Care Scams Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, fraud detection, and enforcement to reduce improper payments and protect program integrity—benefiting taxpayers and improving child safety—but it raises administrative costs and enforcement risks that could reduce provider participation and disrupt access to subsidized child care for families, especially in small or low-capacity states.
Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026
The bill expands and protects benefits and loan access for veterans, survivors, and some Reserve/Guard members—improving income support and home‑loan eligibility—while increasing near‑term federal costs, extending existing policy settings through 2036, and creating implementation, notification, and fee burdens for some beneficiaries.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill protects veterans' privacy, due process, and access to benefits by preventing automatic NICS reporting or 'mental defective' labels based solely on VA fiduciary decisions, while trading off increased administrative costs, interagency workload, and potential public-safety gaps from fewer automatic firearm-disqualification transmissions.
Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act
The bill increases parental control and federal clarity over K–8 gender-related record and curriculum decisions but does so by restricting federally funded materials and supports related to gender identity, which may reduce access and safety for transgender students and impose administrative and legal burdens on schools.
Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.
The resolution increases multi-year budget predictability and speeds some budget processes (helping defense, certain agencies, and reconciliation-driven priorities) but does so by locking in ceilings and concentrating procedural power in ways that reduce flexibility, oversight, and could constrain investments or rights protections.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support and multi‑year funding to farmers, rural infrastructure, conservation, nutrition, and research—improving access to credit, broadband, and technical assistance—while creating sizable new federal spending, added administrative complexity, and tradeoffs that could favor larger operators and reduce some environmental and state regulatory safeguards.
Monitor Accountability Act
The bill increases transparency and limits the duration and conflicts of federal monitorships to protect local control and reduce taxpayer costs, but those reforms may shrink the pool of experienced monitors, disrupt continuity, and introduce procedural delays or administrative burdens.
Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025
The bill clarifies and broadens prohibited conduct around posting bail—helping prosecutors combat fraud and enforce consistent rules—but raises criminal exposure for defendants and their supporters, which may deter bail assistance and reduce access to pretrial release for low-income people and immigrants.
Cashless Bail Reporting Act
The bill centralizes and publicizes pretrial release practices to boost transparency, oversight, and public-safety information but does so by empowering the Attorney General in ways that could politicize labels, stigmatize jurisdictions, and discourage pretrial release—potentially raising detention and costs.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
The bill provides comprehensive regulatory clarity, stronger consumer disclosures, AML controls, and operational standards for digital assets—tradeoffs include higher compliance costs, new privacy/surveillance risks, potential chilling effects on innovation, narrowed investor remedies, and concentrated market power that may shift costs and risks onto consumers and taxpayers.
To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.
The bill expands E15 sales and provides sizable regulatory relief to small refineries to preserve jobs and fuel supply, but it raises air‑quality and vehicle‑compatibility risks, shifts compliance costs that could affect fuel prices, and reduces confidentiality for exemption petitions.
Expressing support for law enforcement officers.
The resolution praises law enforcement and highlights declining violent crime/overdose trends, but its partisan framing and attributions risk polarizing debate, misinforming the public about causes, and straining trust with immigrant communities.
Require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.
This bill preserves hydropower projects and developer investments (supporting jobs and renewable generation) by extending and reinstating licenses, but does so at the cost of potential environmental delays, shifted financial risk to taxpayers/ratepayers, and legal uncertainty for other stakeholders.
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.
