American Legislation

A House resolution honoring Kay Granger’s life, service, and historic firsts, and sending condolences to her family.

Adds a formal dyslexia definition to IDEA and requires equal access to accommodations for eligible students, including those from low-income, low socioeconomic status, and limited English proficient backgrounds.

Creates a short-term task force to study youth impact of chatbots, funds research and outreach, and bans addictive features for users under 18.

Proposes large increases in child care and early education funding through 2029, with a reduction of unobligated border enforcement funds.

Expands Medicaid to cover adult dental and oral health services, with a temporary 100% federal match and new quality, equity, and reporting requirements for states.

Ban on annual or lifetime dental limits for targeted low income CHIP children and pregnant women, plus a required wraparound dental coverage, effective six months after enactment.

Establishes a State Department program to fund international partnerships and centers for critical minerals research, development, and deployment, with oversight, reporting requirements, and a 10-year sunset.

Creates mapping, surveys, grants, and a monitoring subprogram to track and reduce harm to migratory whales.

Authorizes targeted economic and diplomatic sanctions in response to repeated transboundary wildfire smoke and sets conditions to lift those sanctions.

Expands access to federal records in Epstein-related matters, empowering victims and state prosecutors to obtain unredacted materials, limits privileges, permits classified review, and introduces penalties for concealment or falsification.

Requires USTR to investigate whether partners including Canada restrict U.S. alcoholic beverage imports and to report findings to Congress.

House resolution reaffirms commitment to liberty, equality, and opportunity for immigrant communities and supports program expansion, collaboration, and investments ahead of the Nation's 250th anniversary.

Directs the State Department to request opinion surveys to guide public affairs in places with U.S.-funded media.

Creates a small State Department center to analyze and help prevent foreign violent conflict and support peace negotiations.

Requires the Secretary of State to notify Congress 15 days before obligating funds for nonstandard embassy or consulate projects, with cost, schedule, security comparisons and justification.

Creates and expands a chief development officer role at the International Development Finance Corporation to strengthen development duties and interagency coordination.

Directs Department of Defense to expand acceptable past performance, remove procurement barriers for small and nontraditional contractors, and prioritize cost efficiency and quality.

Requires DoD to test moisture-control technologies in military housing and to issue uniform mold remediation guidelines across services.

Requires the Defense Secretary to create cybersecurity education programs with colleges and report annually.

Honors Dr. Paul Farmer and urges a new global health solidarity strategy, more funding, debt relief, democratic global institutions, and reparations for historical harms.

Directs the Defense Secretary to report on feasibility of installing traffic alert/collision avoidance systems and ADS-B IN in all military helicopters.

Adds district judgeships, updates court organization, requires GAO reports and public judgeship recommendations, and authorizes funding.

Prohibits US funding to three UN refugee and migration agencies and orders a GAO study and audit on related federal assistance and amounts.