All Roll Calls
Yes: 389 • No: 6
Sponsored By: Senator Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Became Law
This law strengthens federal agency performance reviews by requiring regular, evidence-based checks of each agency strategic goal and clearer public summaries of those findings.
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Agencies now review each strategic goal at least once a year and include a summary in their performance report. Reviews check progress, risks, needed evidence, and fixes for goals at greatest risk. The federal performance website shows quarterly results and trends for 2-year agency and 4-year government goals, and keeps an archive. The site meets modern website standards, and these rules apply now. Each government-wide priority goal names at least two joint leads, updates in the first year of a presidential term, appears with the first full-year budget, and cites supporting budget items.
The law deletes sections 1118 and 1119 of title 31 and removes those pilot project authorities. It also strikes subsection (c) of section 9704 and redesignates the next subsection. These changes take effect upon enactment and mainly affect how agencies manage programs, not household benefits.
Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
MI • D
Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
IN • R
Sponsored 3/8/2023
All Roll Calls
Yes: 389 • No: 6
house vote • 12/5/2024
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Yes: 389 • No: 6
118-s-141, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act
Expands and funds veterans' access to community, home-based, and caregiver services while strengthening quality standards and oversight. It tightens community-care rules and scheduling, raises noninstitutional care caps, boosts caregiver mental-health support, and adds targeted housing and homelessness tools. - Veterans and families: Changes the Veterans Community Care Program so veterans and their referring clinicians make final eligibility determinations for a two-year period starting 90 days after enactment, requires stronger outreach, scheduling preferences, and industry-parity data standards, and authorizes rural ambulance reimbursement with a $46,000 lifetime cap. Mobile mammography gets $5.0 million for FY2025. - Caregivers and home-based care: Raises the baseline noninstitutional alternative cap from 65% to 100% and creates new home- and community-based programs like Veteran-Directed Care and Homemaker and Home Health Aide services. Caregiver mental-health grants are funded at $10.0 million for each of FY2025 and FY2026. - Housing, homelessness, education, and workforce: Reforms Native American direct-loan rules and authorizes a Native CDFI relending program with up to $5.0 million for FY2025. Homeless-veteran per diem rates increase and outreach gets $10.0 million each for FY2026 and FY2027. The law also creates a High Technology education program for up to 4,000 participants per year and expands pay and USERRA protections and remedies for VA staff and service members. Authorizes at least $50.0 million in new appropriations across FY2025–FY2027, increasing federal spending.
118-s-870, An act to authorize appropriations for the United States Fire Administration and firefighter assistance grant programs, to advance the benefits of nuclear energy, and for other purposes.
This law reauthorizes major firefighter grant programs and accelerates deployment and licensing of advanced nuclear technologies. It pairs multi‑year funding for local fire response with wide-ranging changes to Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, fees, workforce hiring, and licensing paths for new reactors.
118-s-1510, GAO Inspector General Parity Act
Strengthens independence and parity for the Government Accountability Office Inspector General. It requires detailed, written reasons before removal or transfer, secures the IG's budget inside the GAO, and guarantees access to independent legal counsel. - Inspectors General: The Comptroller General must provide Congress with detailed, case-specific written reasons at least 30 days before removing or transferring the IG. If there is an open or completed inquiry, the communication must identify each entity conducting the inquiry and include findings from completed inquiries. - Non-duty status rules: Only the Comptroller General may place the IG on non-duty status. The Comptroller General must give Congress written, case-specific reasons at least 15 days before the change unless a specific-threat determination requires same-day notice, and the IG may not be placed on non-duty status during the 30 days before removal unless that threat determination is made and reported. - Budget independence: The Comptroller General must include the IG's annual budget request in the GAO budget without change, preserving the IG's budget submission. - Legal advice and personnel pay: The IG may obtain legal advice from counsel who reports directly to the IG or from counsel of another Inspector General. The law removes a former limit that capped office staff pay at no more than $1,000 less than the Inspector General's annual pay.
118-s-3126, Mark Our Place Act
This law expands eligibility for government-furnished headstones, markers, and medallions for Medal of Honor recipients. The Mark Our Place Act authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish or replace a government headstone, marker, or medallion for an eligible Medal of Honor recipient regardless of the recipient’s dates of service. It does this by amending 38 U.S.C. 2306(d)(5)(C), removing a clause, redesignating subsequent clauses, and correcting cross-references to section 2732. The law broadens eligibility for this benefit and does not include new appropriations or funding authorizations.
118-s-111, Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2023
Requires a plain-language, 100-word summary for every proposed federal regulation linked on regulations.gov. The law amends section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code so each notice of proposed rulemaking must include the internet address on regulations.gov that points to that short plain-language summary.
118-s-91, Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act
A single Congressional Gold Medal honoring sixty diplomats recognizes those who risked careers and lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. The law names the honorees and sets how the medal will be made, awarded, and displayed. - Families: Eldest next of kin of each of the sixty diplomats will receive the medal as part of a delegation that includes a senior official from the country the diplomat served and the cochairs of the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Committee. - Museums and remembrance sites: The gold medal will be given to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for display and research, and the museum is encouraged to make it available for display at other Holocaust remembrance locations. - Mint and funding rules: The Secretary of the Treasury will design and strike the medal, may sell bronze duplicates at prices that cover costs, and may charge the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund for striking costs with duplicate-sale proceeds returned to that fund. The medal is designated a national and numismatic item under federal law.
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