Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027
The bill eases costs and cash‑flow for apparel importers and preserves short-term customs operations and trade preferences (notably AGOA), trading off reduced tariff revenue, added competition for domestic textile producers, and administrative and policy uncertainty from short extensions and retroactive relief.
Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026
The bill trades clearer statutory wording that can aid regulators and speed implementation of right whale protections against a risk that the rewording could narrow legal interpretation, creating uncertainty, litigation risk, and possibly weaker or delayed protections for whales and economic strain on coastal fishing communities.
LACA
The bill formally recognizes College Station as a federal judicial location, which clarifies venue and may improve local access, at the cost of only small administrative updates for court operations without changing jurisdiction or funding.
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act
The bill aims to make BOP workplaces safer and more consistent by forcing OIG recommendations and national standards, but it may raise taxpayer costs, disrupt operations during rapid implementation, and could fall short if the Bureau does not fully comply.
Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act
The bill preserves and clarifies funding for SSA demonstrations that could improve supports for people with disabilities, at the cost of higher SSA administrative spending, modest enrollment delays, and some procedural uncertainty until agencies issue guidance.
Stop Insider Trading Act
The bill trades tighter, standardized in‑person ID rules and some measures to help voters comply for real risks of creating new time, cost, and access barriers that could prevent vulnerable Americans from voting and will raise administrative costs for election officials.
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
The resolution pulls U.S. forces back from hostilities absent new Congressional authorization—protecting service members and strengthening legislative control—but at the cost of reduced executive flexibility in crisis response and potential limits on transparency and oversight of intelligence activities.
Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036.
The resolution provides clearer, multi‑year budget guidance and funding signals that improve planning for defense and key domestic programs, but it also locks in targets and procedural powers that could force future cuts, reduce oversight, and leave uncertainty because guidance is not the same as appropriations.
Main Street Capital Access Act
This bill leans toward easing burdens, increasing predictability, and boosting transparency for banks—especially smaller institutions—while accelerating approvals and limiting some supervisory tools, a trade‑off that may lower costs and preserve local banking but increases litigation, administrative costs, and potential risks to competition, depositor safety, and taxpayers.
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027
The bill preserves continuity of many federal programs, benefits, and emergency responses in the short term—avoiding service disruptions and furloughs—but does so by increasing near‑term federal spending and narrowing congressional timing and oversight, creating trade-offs for budget deficits, transparency, readiness planning, and some programmatic priorities.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military readiness, technological defenses, service member benefits, and industrial resilience but does so at the cost of materially higher federal spending, expanded administrative and reporting burdens, procurement and privacy tradeoffs, and several provisions that raise legal and implementation risks.
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 provides symbolic recognition and a consistent name for a local VA clinic—boosting visibility for a veteran and local services—at the cost of being purely ceremonial with no new benefits and minor administrative and congressional resource impacts.
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
The bill eliminates biannual clock changes and provides longer evening daylight year-round (benefiting sleep stability and evening commerce) at the cost of darker winter mornings with safety risks and administrative and coordination burdens for governments and businesses.
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 improves preparedness and infrastructure resilience for terrorist attacks during extreme cold by exercising coordinated response and rapid oversight, but it imposes costs on government and private partners and risks limited transparency and potentially premature policy actions from quick reporting.
Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act
The bill strengthens conflict-of-interest safeguards and accountability for SBA lending, improving trust and protection for borrowers and taxpayers, but imposes new administrative and compliance burdens that may slow loan processing and raise agency costs.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and broadens emergency restoration assistance—especially via larger advance payments and expanded eligibility for federally- or human-caused fires—while increasing program costs, oversight burdens, and the potential for inconsistent administration or misuse.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by providing shark-warning alerts to protect beachgoers, but does so at the cost of more frequent alerts that could cause public alert fatigue and create operational burdens for emergency agencies.
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 safeguards to prevent FAFSA identity fraud and protect federal aid, but does so at the cost of added privacy risks, administrative burdens, potential delays to students' aid, and increased taxpayer-funded oversight expenses.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill gives Treasury and agencies a targeted tool to pause suspect federal payments and reduce fraud while adding transparency and contest rights, but it risks short-term hardship for recipients, false positives and uneven application, and extra burdens for state/local administrators.
Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act
The bill strengthens fraud prevention, recovery, and oversight for large federal relief and recovery funds—potentially saving taxpayer dollars and improving prosecutions and transparency—while creating significant data centralization that raises privacy, cybersecurity, administrative cost, and aid‑delivery delay risks that must be managed.
Secure America Act
The bill significantly increases multi‑year funding and operational capacity for federal border and immigration enforcement—improving staffing, investigations, and detection—while concentrating enforcement power and surveillance that raises costs, privacy concerns, and heightened risks of arrest and strained local–community relations for immigrants.
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 expand and modernize VA health capacity in St. Louis—improving care and creating local jobs—but does so at substantial taxpayer cost and with risks of delays, overruns, and potential diversion of VA resources from other locations.
Ukraine Support Act
This bill sharply expands U.S. diplomatic, financial, military, and economic tools to support Ukraine and pressure Russia—strengthening allied security and accountability—but does so at increased fiscal cost, elevated geopolitical and economic risks, and with added administrative and political constraints on executive action.
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 increases and protects benefits for veterans and expands home‑loan access for reservists while preserving near‑term fee and limit stability, but it raises federal costs, creates some long‑term uncertainty about indexing and limits, and shifts administrative and cost burdens onto new loan users and program administrators.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill protects veterans' privacy and prevents loss of firearm-related rights based solely on VA fiduciary appointments by restricting data-sharing with background-check systems, at the cost of increased judicial/administrative workload and potential public-safety gaps from reduced automatic reporting.
