Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation during a fiscal year unless both Houses of Congress have agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for that fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year.

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.

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.

HR3001 — To advance commonsense priorities.

Creates a federal carbon price on greenhouse gas emissions. It imposes per‑ton taxes on fossil fuels, industrial sources, and certain product uses, pairs those taxes with border adjustments on imports and exports, and channels most revenue into a new RISE Trust Fund for transport, resilience, grants, and clean‑energy programs. - Low-income households: State grants from the RISE Trust Fund help households with income up to 150% of the federal poverty line and receive about 10% of RISE funds for distribution through state plans. - Manufacturers and trade: Border tax adjustments apply to eligible GHG‑intensive, trade‑intensive sectors to tax imports and rebate exports; sectors meeting roughly 5% GHG intensity and 15% trade intensity are presumptively eligible. - Energy producers and heavy industries: A fossil fuel tax starts at $35 per metric ton CO2e in 2027 and increases yearly by CPI plus 5 percentage points, with an extra $4 per ton if cumulative emissions exceed set caps; the law creates refund paths for verified carbon capture and certain noncombustive uses.

HR4393 — DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025

This bill would create a comprehensive immigration and border-security overhaul that layers new physical barriers and surveillance with big changes to employer verification, asylum processing, and legal-status pathways. It bundles construction and funding, a rethought E‑Verify system, expedited asylum at humanitarian campuses, and new conditional and Dignity status routes for long‑term residents. - Would expand humanitarian processing and asylum rules for migrants. It would establish at least three southern border humanitarian campuses for screening, medical checks, legal orientation, and an expedited asylum track with a 72‑hour arrival rest and a 15‑day initial screening goal. - Would change worksite verification and employer rules. It would replace the current system with a new Employment Eligibility Verification System, phase mandatory employer use by size over 6–24 months, allow secondary checks and a limited good‑faith defense, and raise penalties and debarment authority for violations. - Would invest in ports, infrastructure, and backlog tools and create a new trust fund. It would authorize $2.0 billion annually for ports in FY2026–2030, create an Immigration Infrastructure and Debt Reduction Fund, and permit premium processing deposits including a $20,000 premium option to address visa backlogs. Would authorize substantial new appropriations and fee deposits, including $2.0 billion annually for FY2026–2030, increasing federal outlays.

HR1229 — United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

Would deepen U.S.-Israel defense cooperation by creating new joint programs, offices, and multi-year funding to develop and deploy counter-unmanned systems and other emerging defense technologies. - U.S. military and Department of Defense: Creates a United States–Israel Counter-Unmanned Systems Program and a program office, authorizes $150 million per year for 2026–2030, and requires annual unclassified reports. - U.S. and Israeli defense industries and tech firms: Authorizes joint research, testing, and procurement across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, and automation with $50 million per year for 2026–2030 and a framework for cost sharing and intellectual property. - Regional partners and missile defense planners: Requires an assessment of integrated air and missile defense in the U.S. Central Command area with an unclassified report in 180 days and extends the War Reserves Stockpile Authority beyond January 1, 2029. Would authorize $150 million per year for counter-unmanned systems and $50 million per year for emerging technology cooperation from 2026–2030, and raises funding caps for anti-tunnel and counter-UAS programs through 2028.

HR743 — Tim’s Act

Would create pay parity for federal wildland firefighters. The bill would replace the General Schedule base rate with a Special Base Rate and add steep deployment pay, new leave, health supports, and retirement credit to match the risks of wildland firefighting. - Federal wildland firefighters would move to a Special Base Rate that replaces the GS base for pay and locality calculations. Deployment days would pay an "incident response premium" equal to 450% of the hourly rate, capped at $9,000 per calendar year. - Workers would get new paid Rest and Recuperation leave and 7 consecutive calendar days of mental health leave per year. The bill would require a public cancer and cardiovascular disease database and a mental health program with peer support and unlimited dedicated sessions. - It would allow retroactive credit for certain pre-enactment service if employees make required deposits and would count specified overtime toward retirement. The measure would create a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program for next of kin and set aggregate pay caps tied to Executive Schedule levels while allowing limited Secretarial waivers.

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