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United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
This resolution expresses the sorrow of the Senate upon the announcement of the death of Daniel J. Evans, former Senator for the state of Washington.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 2026
House Office of Legislative Counsel Modernization Act This bill authorizes the designation of more than one attorney in the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House of Representatives as Deputy Legislative Counsel. (Current law authorizes only one deputy.) A Deputy Legislative Counsel must perform the functions of the Legislative Counsel during the Legislative Counsel's disability or absence (including a vacancy).
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5585) to impose criminal and immigration penalties for intentionally fleeing a pursuing Federal officer while operating a motor vehicle; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6678) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed Social Security fraud are inadmissible and deportable; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6679) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to aliens who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, supported, or otherwise facilitated the attacks against Israel; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6976) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired are inadmissible and deportable.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2026
Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4365) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4367) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4665) making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4368) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 2026
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025 This bill provides FY2025 appropriations for the legislative branch, including the House of Representatives and joint items such as the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Office of the Attending Physician, and the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services. In addition, the bill provides FY2025 appropriations for the Capitol Police; the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights; the Congressional Budget Office; the Architect of the Capitol; the Library of Congress, including the Congressional Research Service and the Copyright Office; the Government Publishing Office; the Government Accountability Office; Congressional Office for International Leadership Fund; and the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development. (Pursuant to the longstanding practice of each chamber of Congress determining its own requirements, funds for the Senate are not included in the House bill.) The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this bill.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 2026
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025 This bill provides FY2025 appropriations for the legislative branch, including the Senate and joint items such as the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Office of the Attending Physician, and the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services. In addition, the bill provides FY2025 appropriations for the Capitol Police; the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights; the Congressional Budget Office; the Architect of the Capitol; the Library of Congress, including the Congressional Research Service and the Copyright Office; the Government Publishing Office; the Government Accountability Office; the Congressional Office for International Leadership Fund; and the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development. (Pursuant to the longstanding practice of each chamber of Congress determining its own requirements, funds for the House are not included in the Senate bill.) The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this bill.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 2026
This resolution provides for the House of Representatives to consider H.R. 8774, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY2025, and for other purposes. H.R. 8771, making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for FY2025, and for other purposes; and H.R. 8752, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for FY2025, and for other purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 2026
Modernizing the Congressional Research Service's Access to Data Act This bill grants the Congressional Research Service (CRS) the authority to secure all forms of records, information, and data directly from the various departments, agencies, and establishments of the executive branch, regulatory agencies, and commissions, as necessary to carry out congressional requests. Such government entities must furnish CRS with such material in a timely manner. CRS must maintain the same level of confidentiality for such material as is required by law of the government entity from which it is obtained. The bill subjects CRS officers and employees to the same statutory penalties for unauthorized disclosure or use of such material as officers or employees of the government entity from which it is obtained.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 2026
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 2026
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2026
This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 5863) to provide tax relief with respect to certain federal disasters.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2026
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 2025
This resolution establishes the rules of the House of Representatives for the 117th Congress by adopting and modifying the House rules from the 116th Congress. Changes from the rules for the previous Congress include measures to facilitate the operation of Congress during the ongoing COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. The resolution makes the Office of Diversity and Inclusion permanent, revises language in the rules to be gender-inclusive, and continues requirements to protect congressional employees from harassment and discrimination. The resolution also implements measures to protect whistle-blowers and increase congressional transparency. The resolution authorizes necessary amounts for the Committee on House Administration to resolve contested elections. Additionally, the Clerk of the House of Representative must establish a process for House Members to indicate their support for Senate-passed measures that have been received by the House, including maintaining a publicly available list of Members supporting each measure. The chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust an estimate concerning the fiscal impact of legislation to exempt the budgetary effects of measures to prevent, prepare for, or respond to economic or public health consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as measures to prevent, prepare for, or respond to economic, environmental, or public health consequences resulting from climate change. Until the Committee on Oversight and Reform has adopted rules, the chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis may issue subpoenas related to its investigation into political interference in the response to the coronavirus pandemic at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The resolution also reauthorizes specified commissions, offices, and committees, and establishes a Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 2025
This resolution elects designated Members to specified standing committees of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 2025
This resolution elects designated Members to specified standing committees of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act This act provides for the posthumous presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of Shirley Chisholm, in recognition of her activism, independence, and groundbreaking achievements in politics, including election as the first African American woman in Congress. The act provides that the gold medal shall be given to and displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. The act also authorizes duplicate medals to be cast in bronze and made available for sale.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act This bill renames and revises the functions and duties of the Office of Technology Assessment which, composed of a Technology Assessment Board and a director, provides Congress with assessments of probable technology application impacts. (The office has not been funded since FY1996.) Specifically, the bill renames the office the Congressional Office of Technology, and it requires the office to undertake additional duties, such as providing to Members of Congress (1) certain information without the need for board review, (2) certain technical assistance on legislation related to science and technology without the need for board review, and (3) objective policy options on how Members may achieve goals with respect to science and technology policy. The bill authorizes individual Members of Congress to submit to the board a request that the office undertake an assessment activity. Additionally, the bill requires the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office to coordinate technology assessment activities with the office to avoid duplication or overlapping of research activities. The bill also (1) allows the office to temporarily appoint specified technical and professional personnel to work for the office, (2) requires the office to make the findings of completed analyses publicly available, (3) revises the appointment of board members, (4) requires the board to hold an annual meeting at which Members of Congress may appear and present information regarding technology assessment activities, and (5) requires the board to report annually on the activities of the office.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
No Fencing at the United States Capitol Complex Act This bill prohibits the use of federal funds for permanent fencing around the perimeter of any U.S. Capitol buildings or grounds.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Sunset Act of 2024 This bill eliminates the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress and transitions related oversight responsibilities to the Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and others. Under the bill, the Center for Legislative Archives must provide an annual report on the management and preservation of the records of Congress during the previous year to NARA, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The first such report shall be provided by February 1 of the second calendar year after the bill’s enactment. Further, the Archivist, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives must regularly meet to review the management and preservation of the records of Congress and Members of Congress. The meetings must occur within 60 days after the date on which the annual report is provided and within 180 days after the date on which an individual is appointed to the position of Archivist, the Secretary of the Senate, or the Clerk of the House of Representatives. The committee is eliminated 60 days after the bill's enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This resolution finds Attorney General Merrick Brian Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena. It also directs the Speaker of the House to (1) certify the related report from the House Oversight Committee to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for criminal proceedings, and (2) take all other appropriate action to enforce the subpoena.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This resolution finds Attorney General Merrick Brian Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena. It also directs the Speaker of the House to (1) certify the related report from the House Judiciary Committee to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for criminal proceedings, and (2) take all other appropriate action to enforce the subpoena.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule Act This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol to create a congressional time capsule in honor of the 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to be buried on the west lawn of the Capitol on or before July 4, 2026. Congressional leadership will determine the contents of the time capsule, and the time capsule shall be sealed until July 4, 2276.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule Act This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol to create a congressional time capsule in honor of the 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to be buried on the west lawn of the Capitol on or before July 4, 2026. Congressional leadership will determine the contents of the time capsule, and the time capsule shall be sealed until July 4, 2276.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This resolution expels Representative George Santos from the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This resolution authorizes a Senator, Senate officer, or Senate employee to (1) collect donations of clothing, toys, food, and housewares for certain charitable purposes during the holiday season from another Senator, Senate officer, or Senate employee within a Senate building or office; and (2) work with a nonprofit organization to deliver such donations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This resolution censures Representative Jamaal Bowman.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This concurrent resolution authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 7, 2024, for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2025
This concurrent resolution permits the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police and its auxiliary to sponsor the Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service and the National Honor Guard and Pipe Band Exhibition as free public events on the Capitol grounds.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 2025
This resolution elects Representative Thomas R. Suozzi (New York) to the Committee on the Budget; Representative Kweisi Mfume (Maryland) to the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and Representative Christopher R. Deluzio (Pennsylvania) to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.