Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 useful flexibility to set retirement ages (57–62) so agencies can manage staffing and protect workers in demanding roles, but that discretion also creates planning uncertainty and can force longer service or higher short-term costs for employees and taxpayers.
Medal of Sacrifice Act
Creates a national, statutory recognition program and oversight commission to honor fallen law enforcement and first responders and improve transparency, but may exclude some families based on contested wrongdoing findings and faces risks to diversity and continuity because commissioners are unpaid and the President can dissolve the body.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill trades accelerated permits and new regional water and utility infrastructure (and a modest expansion of protected lands) for faster land-use approvals and permissive material/ROW terms that could reduce federal revenue and environmental oversight, increasing risks to public lands and community input.
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 trades a brief two-week continuity of intelligence collection and ongoing investigations against a short extension of surveillance authorities that prolongs privacy, oversight, and business uncertainty concerns.
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
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 detection and recovery of improper payments and clarifies state cost sharing and agency notifications, at the cost of broader death‑record data sharing that raises privacy risks and can temporarily harm wrongly flagged beneficiaries while imposing modest state burdens.
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.
