American Legislation

Proposes expanding the ban on sexual relationships between Members and all House employees across offices, with questions about enforcement and penalties.

Prohibits members and top staff from cohabitating unless married; adds to rules. Addresses ethics concerns, with unclear enforcement and no explicit penalties; divides opinions on private living arrangements.

Proposes a rule limiting recorded votes after 11 p.m. to those with 3/4 support, reshaping floor calendars and staff workloads.

Non-binding resolution urging hearings to study wage versus capital income taxation and potential reforms affecting wealth, reporting, and newer asset classes.

A joint resolution would nullify a specific OCC rule about whether state escrow interest is preempted, affecting banks, states, and consumers.

Requires detailed reporting on hospital ownership and finances; licenses private equity investors; safeguards staffing and access to care while studying market effects.

Requires public reporting and licensing of for-profit health care owners, with safeguards on service closures, staffing, and investments; empowers HHS to set rules and review deals affecting patient access.

A proposal to publish clemency explanations, seek victims' input, and tighten lobbying disclosures.

Expands Medicaid eligibility to individuals under 26, automates enrollment at birth, and removes immigration status restrictions.

Requires an engineer in the lead cab for main line trains and bans remote control locomotives outside yards; includes rapid audits and penalties.

Prohibits or limits funding to groups that provide abortion, or promote certain ideologies, with narrow medical exceptions and waivers, across health, humanitarian, and development programs.

Prohibits denying transplant evaluation or listing solely due to disability; requires supports and individualized medical evaluations; strengthens civil rights protections in transplant care.

Proposes multi-year funding for NIH, CDC, DoD health research, and VA medical research, with CPI-linked increases after 2037, sequestration exemption, and funds available until expended.

Provides paid rest and recuperation leave after firefighting deployments, with joint agency rules on timing, and extends an overtime-cap waiver, plus a limited transfer of funds to sustain pay increases.

HHS must develop a rural hospital cybersecurity workforce strategy, create training materials, consult providers, and brief Congress within one year.

Bar recipients controlled by agents of foreign principals from receiving funding via grants, contracts, loans, or vouchers.

DOE would test advanced reactors across at least ten sites, prioritizing fourth generation, small modular, and micro reactors with industry cost sharing.

Keeps disability program offices inside education agencies and curbs reorganizations or outsourcing that could disrupt services.

Proposes technology-focused training for acquisition staff, expands cloud and AI use, and raises simplified and micro-purchase thresholds to boost small-business participation in tech contracting.

Proposed change would exclude stipends and wages from training programs when calculating snap eligibility and benefits.

Proposes a rule for colleges receiving federal student aid to avoid events promoting antisemitism, defined by IHRA, with Title IV eligibility at stake.

This measure broadens the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, increasing rates and wage caps to spur employer hiring among veterans, SNAP recipients, summer youth, and TANF participants.

Requires public explanation for clemency grants, strengthens Pardon Attorney duties, and tightens quick lobbying reporting.

This measure requires reporting on Taliban funding sources, U.S.-funded cash programs, and Afghan Fund governance to strengthen oversight and transparency of foreign aid.