Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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 transfers and public access—strengthening tribal rights, reducing legal uncertainty, and protecting public/subsistence access—while limiting private/corporate land accumulation and development options and imposing administrative, management, and potential legal costs on federal and local authorities.
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 strengthens technical and compliance vetting to improve broadband quality and reduce waste, but that stricter approach risks excluding new/small providers, slowing deployment, and raising compliance costs.
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.
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 an overdue Medal of Honor to John W. Ripley—providing recognition, closure, and a morale boost for veterans—at the cost of some federal administrative effort and a precedent that may invite future time‑limit waivers.
Nicholas Dockery Medal of Honor Act
The bill corrects a past oversight by allowing a veteran to receive the Medal of Honor and improves fairness in award reviews, at the cost of modest administrative expenses and a precedent that could increase DoD workload.
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 historical oversight by awarding James Capers Jr. the Medal of Honor and by waiving time limits to allow corrective recognitions, trading a measure of administrative burden and perceptions of unequal treatment (and modest taxpayer cost) for restored honor and broader opportunities for veterans to receive deserved recognition.
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 establishes a size-limited, jointly approved Semiquincentennial time capsule to preserve a curated congressional record for future generations, trading modest near-term costs and concentrated leadership control — and a 250-year delay in public access — for long-term historical preservation and reduced physical risk to the Capitol Visitor Center.
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 creates clearer, more predictable fee allocations, deposit rules, and temporary-judge continuity to stabilize bankruptcy administration, but does so by diverting fees to the Treasury and fixing per-case dollar allocations—trading short-term predictability and centralization for risks of underfunding over time, reduced judicial turnover, and transitional fairness/administrative burdens.
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 directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
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.
FAST VETS Act
The bill gives the VA clearer authority to revise veterans' vocational rehabilitation plans to better fit changed needs, but leaves the decision-making discretionary and omits funding, deadlines, and possibly some procedural protections, risking uneven access and weaker safeguards for veterans.
Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act
The bill improves housing access and reduces eligibility confusion for veterans with service‑connected disabilities, at the cost of modestly higher housing assistance demand, potential competition for limited slots, and one‑time administrative and oversight burdens.
VA Budget Shortfall Accountability Act
The bill trades stronger oversight, transparency, and more stable VA funding (benefiting veterans and taxpayers) against added administrative burden, the risk of higher short-term costs, and the possibility that revealed budget weaknesses prompt political scrutiny or funding delays.
Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
The bill expands acceptable milk and fortified nondairy options and strengthens allergy-safety training in schools—improving access and safety for many students—while creating modest new costs, administrative requirements, and a possible increase in saturated-fat availability.
La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
The bill transfers clearly defined federal parcels to La Paz County quickly—helping local planning and protecting some cultural and sensitive resources—while shifting costs to the county, narrowing public planning opportunities, and reducing public land/access in ways that may concern local residents and recreationists.
Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025
The bill gives Alaska Native veterans and tribal communities substantially more time to secure land allotments and eases application timing pressures, but it also prolongs resolution for other stakeholders and raises federal administrative burdens.
MAPWaters Act of 2025
The bill creates standardized, publicly accessible geospatial data and clearer roles to improve safety, coordination, and conservation communication for waterways, but does so with new costs, reporting and implementation burdens, potential constraints on state flexibility and access, and risks to sensitive sites and data privacy.
Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act
The bill gives taxpayers in presidentially declared disaster areas clearer and extended tax-deadline relief and reduces related penalties and disputes, at the cost of modest administrative burdens for the IRS and potential delays or confusion that could slow processing for other taxpayers.
Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act
The bill aims to clarify and potentially extend USGS authority and funding for Great Lakes monitoring—improving regional data and decisionmaking—but risks higher federal costs, transitional uncertainty for partners, and potential weakening of monitoring depending on the final statutory language.
