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| ID | Title | Process | Latest action | Signals |
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| HR. 239 | JFK Act of 2025 Sponsor: — Directs federal agencies and the Justice Department to publicly release unclassified and unredacted records on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, including sealed court and grand jury materials | House Committee | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HR. 240 | Protect Local Farms Act Sponsor: — • 3 cosponsors Preempts state limits below a 60 hour agricultural workweek under the Fair Labor Standards Act | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| HRES. 17 | Condemning Turkey for its illegal occupation of Cyprus and encouraging President Trump to make the resolution of the Cyprus problem a top foreign policy priority. Sponsor: — • 5 cosponsors Condemns Turkey's continued occupation of Cyprus and urges withdrawal of Turkish troops while pressing adherence to NATO democratic principles | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact34 Trending0 |
| HRES. 18 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Parthenon Marbles should be returned to Greece. Sponsor: — • 3 cosponsors Expresses the House's view that the United Kingdom should negotiate with Greece to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| HRES. 19 | Providing the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should not adjourn until the annual appropriation bills within the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations for the current fiscal year are enacted into law. Sponsor: — • 2 cosponsors Expresses the House's position that it should not adjourn until all annual appropriations bills for the current fiscal year are enacted | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| HRES. 20 | Establishing the Select Committee on Electoral Reform. Sponsor: — • 1 cosponsors Establishes a House select committee on electoral reform to study alternative congressional election systems and report recommendations to Congress and the President | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Rules. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| S. 21 | REMOTE Act Sponsor: — • 2 cosponsors Require executive agencies to monitor telework and on-site network activity, compare employee performance indicators, and report telework-related deficiencies | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| S. 22 | SWAMP Act Sponsor: — Prohibits locating certain executive agency headquarters in the Washington metropolitan area and sets a competitive process to relocate them to states or local governments outside the region | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| S. 23 | DRAIN THE SWAMP Act Sponsor: — • 1 cosponsors Require executive agencies to move at least 30% of Washington area headquarters employees elsewhere, shrink headquarters office space by 30%, and end full time telework for affected DC area staff | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| S. 24 | A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office". Sponsor: — • 1 cosponsors Designates the United States Postal Service facility at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the Representative Maxine Bell Post Office | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| S. 25 | Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act of 2025 Sponsor: — • 6 cosponsors Establishes a climate fund financed by polluters to pay for climate-related costs and damages | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 2025-01-07 | Impact34 Trending0 |
| S. 26 | A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees. Sponsor: — Excludes locality pay adjustments from average pay used to calculate retirement and disability annuities for new Federal Employees’ Retirement System employees | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| S. 27 | Federal Employee Return to Work Act Sponsor: — Prohibits annual and locality pay increases for federal employees who telework at least one day per week | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| S. 29 | Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 Sponsor: — • 18 cosponsors Makes daylight saving time the permanent national standard time while allowing exempt areas to keep standard time | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 2025-01-07 | Impact36 Trending0 |
| SJRES. 1 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. Sponsor: — • 19 cosponsors A constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Members of Congress by barring Senate service after two terms and House service after three terms, subject to state ratification within seven years | Senate Committee | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-01-07 | Impact36 Trending0 |
| SRES. 16 | A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Sponsor: — Establishes the majority party's membership and committee chairs for specified Senate and joint committees in the 119th Congress | Senate Introduced | Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S40; text: CR S42-43) 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| SRES. 17 | A resolution to constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. Sponsor: — Establishes the minority party's membership on specified Senate standing, joint, select, and special committees for the 119th Congress | Senate Introduced | Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S40; text: CR S43) 2025-01-07 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HCONRES. 1 | Regarding consent to assemble outside the seat of government. Sponsor: — Authorizes Congress to meet outside Washington DC during the 119th Congress when House and Senate leaders jointly determine it serves the public interest | House Introduced | Received in the Senate. 2025-01-06 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HJRES. 12 | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. Sponsor: — • 114 cosponsors A constitutional amendment to impose congressional term limits by barring service after two Senate terms or three House terms | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-01-06 | Impact43 Trending3 |
| HR. 212 | Capitol Remembrance Act Sponsor: — • 46 cosponsors Require the Architect of the Capitol to create a permanent Capitol exhibit on the January 6 attack using preserved damaged property, photographic records, and commemorative recognition | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. 2025-01-06 | Impact38 Trending0 |
| HR. 214 | District of Columbia Legislative Home Rule Act Sponsor: — Eliminates Congress's authority to review and nullify newly enacted District of Columbia laws, ending the current disapproval process | House Committee | Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 2025-01-06 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HR. 215 | Adoption Information Act Sponsor: — • 4 cosponsors Requires federally funded family planning programs to give people asking about medical or abortion services information on nearby adoption centers | House Committee | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 2025-01-06 | Impact32 Trending0 |
| HRES. 13 | Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Sponsor: — Elects chairs for specified standing committees of the House of Representatives, including Appropriations, Armed Services, and Ways and Means | House Introduced | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. 2025-01-06 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HRES. 14 | Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. Sponsor: — Elects members to specified standing committees of the House of Representatives | House Introduced | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. 2025-01-06 | Impact30 Trending0 |
| HRES. 15 | Rescinding the subpoenas issued by the January 6th Select Committee on September 23, 2021, October 6, 2021, and February 9, 2022, and withdrawing the recommendations finding Stephen K. Bannon, Mark Randall Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Jr., and Peter K. Navarro in contempt of Congress. Sponsor: — • 12 cosponsors Rescinds January 6 select committee subpoenas and withdraws House contempt recommendations against four named witnesses | House Committee | Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 2025-01-06 | Impact36 Trending0 |