Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
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.
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.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025
The bill aims to raise awareness and target screening to detect esophageal cancers earlier—potentially saving lives and improving program transparency—while risking higher demand and costs, capacity strain, and possible inequities from demographic-targeted screening.
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.
Amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.
The bill gives the Board flexibility to set Capitol Police retirement ages between 57 and 62—helping tailor staffing and retention—but that same discretion can delay retirements, create planning uncertainty for employees, and raise short‑term taxpayer costs depending on the age the Board selects.
Medal of Sacrifice Act
The bill creates a new national award and formal commission to honor law‑enforcement and first responders killed in the line of duty (including immediate named awards), trading off risks that contested wrongdoing findings, unpaid commission positions, and Presidential power to dissolve the commission could limit who is recognized and the program's continuity and inclusiveness.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill facilitates regional water infrastructure and utility maintenance while adding conservation acreage, but accelerates approvals and relaxes controls over federal land materials in ways that could harm public lands and reduce federal revenue/oversight.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill secures and clarifies tribal land ownership and public access while accelerating conveyances, but it transfers federal interests with easements and encumbrances that can limit development, reduce federal flexibility, and create administrative and legal burdens.
Investing in All of America Act of 2025
The bill expands private-capital deployment to targeted small businesses by increasing SBIC leverage exclusions and caps and clarifying rules, but it reduces the ability to count public funds as private capital—weakening public leverage—and limits both the scope and immediacy of benefits for some firms.
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill increases accountability and the likelihood that universal service funds build working broadband by restricting awards to proven providers and adding penalties, but it raises barriers and financial risks that can exclude smaller providers, increase costs, and slow deployment.
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.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
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 preserves intelligence and agency operations by briefly extending Title VII surveillance authorities, but it delays the expiration of powers that raise privacy and civil‑liberties concerns and may reduce near-term pressure for reform.
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.
Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025
The bill makes it substantially easier for victims of Nazi‑looted art to recover property by removing time and jurisdictional barriers, while increasing litigation exposure, creating retroactive relitigation risk, and adding burdens on courts and defendants.
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.
To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to John W. Ripley for acts of valor during the Vietnam War, and for other purposes.
The bill grants a long-overdue Medal of Honor to John W. Ripley—providing formal recognition and a morale signal to veterans and service members—while creating a statutory exception that may set a precedent for future retroactive awards and consumes limited congressional/administrative attention.
Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act
The bill allows a retroactive Medal of Honor to correct a past oversight and affirms DoD's authority to fix awards, trading a meaningful act of recognition and institutional fairness for a modest cost and the potential precedent of more late-award exceptions.
To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Capers, Jr., for acts of valor as a member of the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
The bill corrects a historic omission by awarding the Medal of Honor to James Capers Jr., delivering symbolic recognition and morale benefits for service members while imposing modest administrative costs and a precedent that could increase future Pentagon workload.
Waive the 60-day notice requirement for the posthumous honorary promotion of Captain Cody Khork, United States Army.
The bill grants a one-off, expedited posthumous promotion to provide timely recognition and closure for a soldier's family, while bypassing standard procedural safeguards and creating a narrow precedent that requires Congressional attention without broader benefits or funding.
Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025.
Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule Act
The bill creates a preserved, size-limited Semiquincentennial time capsule with clearer implementation duties and reduced physical risk to the Capitol, but it concentrates approval authority, imposes modest administrative costs, and delays public access and oversight for 250 years.
Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
The bill improves federal ability to stop improper payments and speeds correction of wrongly recorded deaths, but it increases data‑sharing that raises privacy risks and could temporarily disrupt benefits for wrongly flagged individuals while imposing modest costs on states.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill increases and reallocates bankruptcy filing-fee funding to boost trustee pay, stabilize trustee-system funding, and extend judgeships—improving administrative capacity and predictability—but it raises costs for filers, shifts more burden onto participants, and creates legal, funding-flexibility, and short-term implementation uncertainties.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, oversight, emergency response capacity, and targeted infrastructure and conservation funding for communities and taxpayers, but does so while concentrating interpretive authority, imposing tighter spending controls and certifications, and creating potential funding disruptions and delays that reduce agency flexibility and could slow projects and collaborations.
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act
The bill expands legal remedies, defenses, and access to representation for people who were trafficked—potentially reducing incarceration and improving reintegration—while imposing meaningful new burdens and costs on courts and government agencies and creating privacy, evidentiary, and funding trade-offs that may limit or delay some benefits.
