All Roll Calls
Yes: 407 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Representative Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Passed House
Public disclosure of Amtrak executive pay and bonuses. This bill would require Amtrak to make available on its website each member of its executive leadership team's annual base pay and any bonus compensation. It would also require Amtrak to publish the criteria and metrics used to determine those bonuses. The executive leadership team includes the chief executive officer, president, and officers.
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If enacted, Amtrak would have to post on its website the reports it sends to Congress. It would also have to list each executive’s yearly base pay and any bonuses. The bonus listing would include the rules and metrics used to award them. The requirement would cover the CEO, the president, and other officers.
Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
NC • R
Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
MO • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
All Roll Calls
Yes: 407 • No: 0
house vote • 1/13/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 407 • No: 0
HR4275, Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
Expand Coast Guard capacity and strengthen governance. This bill would authorize multi-year funding and set a formal plan to grow Coast Guard end strength and training capacity while rewriting acquisition oversight, personnel rules, and misconduct prevention. It focuses on building to a 60,000-person force, tighter program transparency, and stronger survivor and workplace protections. - Families and dependents: Modernizes "Family leave," extends leave rules to reserves, adds command sponsorship for dependents in Unalaska, creates a maternity uniform allowance, and expands survivor and family-dependency supports. - Members and workforce: Requires budget and training plans to reach a 60,000 end strength and reallocates student-year training slots across FY2025–FY2029. It authorizes direct-hire authority for key civilian roles, mandatory behavioral health hires including at least five specialists, and an embedded behavioral-health technician pilot. - Mariners, ports, and operations: Overhauls Merchant Mariner Credentialing and training standards, tightens acquisition reporting with quarterly and pre-procurement briefings, sets new port and anchorage rules, expands unmanned maritime system pilots, and requires Pacific and Arctic operational planning and reporting.
HR4669, FEMA Act of 2025
FEMA becomes an independent, cabinet-level agency with a clarified all-hazards mission and consolidated federal leadership for preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, and interoperable communications. The bill also rewrites large parts of the Stafford Act to speed repairs, expand assistance, strengthen mitigation, and publish new public dashboards for disaster spending and individual aid metrics. - Families and disaster survivors: Expands housing help with a FEMA Emergency Home Repair program, authorizes direct repair assistance, and extends some temporary assistance periods from 18 to 24 months. Noncongregate sheltering can be provided without a fixed address and states cannot require a credit card for hoteling. - State, Tribal, and local governments and utilities: Creates expedited Section 409 grants for repairing public and qualifying nonprofit facilities with a Federal share floor of 75% and incentives up to 85% for resilience. Offers small-disaster block grants equal to 80% of the estimated Federal public assistance share and sets a Tribal hazard-mitigation minimum of $75.0 million per year. - Private nonprofits and houses of worship: Treats private nonprofits and houses of worship as eligible for assistance without regard to religious character and expands nonprofit closeout and eligibility parity with governments.
HR3151, SHIPS for America Act of 2025
Rebuild U.S. commercial shipbuilding and a U.S.-flag strategic fleet by pairing new tax credits, grants, and operating payments with stronger cargo-preference rules and workforce and innovation programs to restore domestic capacity and sealift readiness. It centralizes maritime strategy in a White House advisor and a Maritime Security Board and funds a broad set of industrial, port, and training programs to favor U.S.-built, U.S.-crewed vessels.
HR5089, Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill would reauthorize and modernize NOAA weather research to strengthen forecasting, observations, and hazard communication across storms, tsunamis, floods, harmful algal blooms, and aviation. It focuses on more data, open community models, social and behavioral science, and new computing and satellite planning to speed research into operations and improve public warnings. - Families and coastal communities: Would fund better forecasts and clearer risk messages for hurricanes, tornadoes, atmospheric rivers, coastal flooding, tsunamis, and harmful algal blooms. It includes dedicated authorizations like $30 million per year for tsunami programs and $27.5 million per year for HAB activities to support detection, mapping, and outreach. - Emergency managers and users: Would modernize warning tools and delivery systems. Provisions require an AWIPS cloud plan, replacement of NWSChat, NOAA Weather Radio upgrades, and aviation data buys including up to $10 million per year for aircraft observations and turbulence improvements. - Scientists, compute centers, and industry: Would create an Earth Prediction Innovation Center and a NOAA Data Lake, expand a DOE-linked computing research initiative, and fund demonstration/transition programs including $50.3 million per year for subseasonal pilots and $20 million per year for NESDIS transition efforts.
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Modernize collision‑avoidance technology across civilian and military fleets and strengthen air traffic control procedures and reporting around high‑density airspace like Reagan National. The text would require new onboard alerting standards, deadlines for equipment retrofits, and expanded training and data‑sharing to reduce near‑midair risks. - Airlines, pilots, and passengers: Would push FAA rulemaking to require ACAS Xa for selected fixed‑wing aircraft and ACAS Xr for rotorcraft and powered‑lift aircraft, set retrofit and new‑production equipage deadlines including Dec. 31, 2031 and a possible Dec. 31, 2033 extension, and update alerting performance and display standards. - Air traffic controllers and FAA operations: Would require instructor‑led Threat and Error Management training within 9 months, deploy a safety‑risk assessment tool at Reagan National within 1 year, upgrade conflict‑alert systems, add visual separation training, and create event notification and deidentified data sharing with ASIAS. - Department of Defense and military rotary‑wing operations: Would force a Transportation‑Defense memorandum of agreement by Sept. 30, 2026, phased DoD equipage with integrated collision‑prevention tech by Dec. 31, 2031, and new DoD rotary‑wing safety‑management and flight‑data standards.
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