Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to expand and modernize VA medical facilities in St. Louis—delivering greater local capacity, improved operations, and construction jobs—but it requires a sizeable upfront taxpayer cost and carries risks of overruns and reduced funding flexibility for other VA priorities.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by sending timely shark-threat alerts to beachgoers, but risks alert fatigue and adds decision-making burdens for local emergency managers and regulators.
Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act
The bill strengthens parental notification and control over K–8 students' name/pronoun and sex‑separated accommodation changes—providing clearer rules for schools and involving families—while increasing risks to transgender and nonbinary students' privacy, mental health, access to accommodations, and creating legal and administrative challenges for districts.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support—loans, grants, conservation, infrastructure, and program modernization—toward farmers and rural communities while increasing federal spending, administrative complexity, and some risks to environmental safeguards, equity, and regulatory oversight.
Monitor Accountability Act
Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025
The bill clarifies and expands federal coverage of bail-posting as prohibited assistance—improving prosecution consistency and immigration enforcement—but increases criminal exposure for those who post bail, risks limiting immigrants' access to pre-removal release, and raises enforcement and financial burdens.
Cashless Bail Reporting Act
The bill increases federal transparency about jurisdictions that allow release on recognizance—potentially enabling oversight, policy change, and targeted advocacy—but risks politicized federal discretion, reputational pressure on localities, greater pretrial detention for vulnerable defendants, and added DOJ administrative costs.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025
This bill aims to create a comprehensive federal framework that promotes clearer classifications, custody protections, and pathways for legitimate digital‑asset activity to expand market participation and safety, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, carving out jurisdictional limits that risk oversight gaps, and creating tradeoffs that could reduce some investor protections and push activities offshore.
Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for industry and small refineries to introduce and certify more fuel options and restores certain retired RFS credits, trading off increased consumer fuel choices and reduced regulatory friction against greater local air pollution risks, potential cost shifts in the renewable fuels market, and reduced procedural transparency.
Expressing support for law enforcement officers.
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.
Amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
The bill trades a brief extension that prevents an operational lapse in intelligence and avoids short-term disruption for a delay in congressional debate and a temporary continuation of surveillance authorities that raise privacy concerns.
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
The bill strengthens oversight, accountability, and legal limits on certain intelligence queries and preserves Congress's control while blocking a Fed retail CBDC—trading expanded oversight and legislative authority for an extended Section 702 sunset, operational burdens, potential deterrence of time-sensitive intelligence queries, and foregone CBDC-related economic opportunities.
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.
HEATS Act
The bill accelerates and simplifies geothermal development—boosting project starts and preserving royalty revenue—by relying more on State permitting, but it does so by reducing federal environmental and cultural reviews and shifting oversight to states, which raises ecological, heritage, and equity risks.
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 Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.
FIRE Act
The bill makes it easier for states to carry out prescribed burns and increases EPA petition transparency, but risks weakening enforcement and ignoring emissions that could harm local air quality while adding complexity that may slow regulatory decisions.
Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act
The bill preserves near-term access to federal green-building certification and provides a fixed timeline for revised DOE rules, but it does so by allowing fossil-fuel-reliant buildings to qualify and by temporarily removing current efficiency regulations—trading faster emissions and efficiency progress for broader short-term eligibility and regulatory predictability.
Kari's Law Reporting Act
The bill increases transparency and could strengthen enforcement of 911 access on multi-line telephone systems—improving public safety and guiding fixes—while imposing modest taxpayer-funded reporting costs and the risk of future compliance expenses that could raise equipment prices.
Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill secures multi-year funding and stronger community‑centered rural health services through 2030, but does so at a cost to taxpayers and with added administrative requirements for recipients.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
The bill accelerates and standardizes approval of communications infrastructure—helping rural connectivity and giving providers clearer timelines—at the cost of reduced agency bandwidth for other land-management priorities, potential shortcuts to environmental/public review that raise legal risk, and added unfunded administrative burdens.
Emergency Reporting Act
The bill increases transparency and study of 9‑1‑1 and broadband outages to improve resiliency and emergency response, but it creates compliance costs for providers and leaves gaps in public detail and the FCC's enforcement authority.
FENCES Act
The bill reduces penalties and provides multi-year regulatory certainty for states affected by out-of-country or uncontrollable pollution, trading stronger federal enforcement incentives and some environmental accountability — with potential health impacts and added state administrative costs.
RED Tape Act
The bill reduces federal environmental review and CEQ oversight to streamline actions, but shifts responsibility to states/localities, reduces public visibility, and raises the risk of air-quality and health harms for communities.
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.
The bill temporarily protects and authorizes work for eligible Haitian nationals—stabilizing families and local labor markets—while imposing administration costs, potential strain on local services, and limiting DHS flexibility to tailor implementation.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds larger advance federal payments to farmers and private forest owners to accelerate recovery from wildfires and emergency threats, but increases upfront federal costs, administrative complexity, and repayment risk for recipients.
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and beefs up SBIR/STTR commercialization support, procurement speed, and national‑security vetting—helping many small innovators scale—while increasing program costs, administrative burdens, and risks to competition, transparency, and privacy for some firms and taxpayers.
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill funds and accelerates federal programs, grants, and pay while increasing transparency and evaluation requirements — but it raises near‑term fiscal costs, adds reporting and procedural burdens that can delay operations, and reduces some traditional oversight and flexibility.
Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026
The bill gives the President and vessel owners tools to protect U.S. facilities and maintain some transit flexibility, but those steps risk significant supply-chain disruptions, added compliance burdens, and possible diplomatic fallout.
