Secure Space Act of 2025

HR1768 — Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act

A single, wide-ranging package focused on health, drug-market transparency, and supply-chain resilience. It would combine major Medicare and Medicaid changes with strict pharmacy benefit manager reporting, public-health preparedness funding, and technology and consumer-safety rules. - Seniors, patients, and families would see Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment shifts that affect telehealth, hospital-at-home waivers, low-income Part D copays, and a new pathway to cover multi-cancer early detection tests beginning in 2029. - Pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and employers would face far-reaching transparency and contracting rules, a full rebate pass-through requirement for employer plans, and new audit and enforcement powers. Implementation funding includes major one-time FY2025 appropriations such as $188 million to CMS and $113 million to support PBM reporting and oversight. - Public-health workers, hospitals, and communities would get increased preparedness and countermeasure funding and new infrastructure supports. The bill authorizes Strategic National Stockpile funding (about $1.1 billion for FY2025), $52 million per year for regional biocontainment labs for FY2025–FY2026, and Commerce-led supply-chain mapping with confidentiality protections for voluntarily submitted data. Would increase federal spending by multiple billions through FY2025–FY2029 because it authorizes and directs numerous appropriations and program outlays.

HR5484 — National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2025

Makes flood insurance more affordable and modernizes the National Flood Insurance Program. It caps annual premium increases, creates a means-tested discount program, tightens claims and appeals timelines, and funds mapping and mitigation improvements. - Homeowners and renters: Yearly increases in covered costs are capped at 9% for a five-year period and policies can opt into monthly payments with a fee capped at $15. - Lower-income households: A graduated discount program targets primary 1–4 family residences for households earning up to 140% of area median income. Congress authorized funding rising from $250 million in FY2024 to $600 million in FY2028 to support the assistance. - Communities and local governments: Requires a building-level flood risk database and digital maps, authorizes $500 million per year for mapping through FY2029, and allows up to $1.0 billion per year for a National Flood Mitigation Fund for five years. This bill authorizes several billion dollars in new spending for assistance, mapping, and mitigation that would increase federal outlays if funded.

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.

HR2548 — Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025

Automatic, recurring sanctions on the Russian government and its affiliates. This bill would create a multi-layered sanctions regime that forces mandatory measures within 15 days of a covered determination and requires reassessment every 90 days. - U.S. financial institutions and investors: Banks, brokers, and U.S. investment funds would be barred from processing transfers to the Russian Federation, buying Russian sovereign debt, or making monetary investments in entities owned or controlled by the Russian government. Many prohibitions would take effect within 15 days of a covered determination and recur every 90 days. - Energy, trade, and commodities: The bill would ban U.S. exports of energy to Russia, bar investments in the Russian energy sector, and prohibit imports of uranium sourced from Russia or Rosatom. It would also raise duties on imports from Russia to not less than 500 percent and allow similar duties on third countries trading in Russian-origin energy commodities. - Individuals, exchanges, and payment networks: High‑ranking Russian officials, oligarchs, and sector actors would face property blocks and visa ineligibility under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The SEC would be directed to bar listing or trading of Russian‑affiliated issuers and global financial messaging providers could be sanctioned for continuing service to designated banks.

HR3069 — Medicare for All Act

This bill would create a national health insurance program called "Medicare for All" to provide universal, comprehensive health coverage for every U.S. resident. It sets the benefit package, bans cost‑sharing for covered care, negotiates drug and device prices, and phases existing federal coverage into the new system during a multi‑year transition. - Families and children: Covers maternity care, pediatric services, mental health, prescription drugs, dental, vision, and more with no out‑of‑pocket costs for covered items. Children under 19 become eligible one year after enactment. - Older adults and people with disabilities: Establishes an entitlement to medically necessary long‑term services and supports in home and community settings, prioritizes independence and supports activities of daily living, and removes the 24‑month Medicare waiting period for people with disabilities. - Providers and the health system: Creates regional offices, pays institutional providers with negotiated quarterly global budgets and individual clinicians via a national fee schedule, restricts private contracting for covered services for two years, and gives the Secretary authority to negotiate prices and, if needed, license manufacture of drugs.

HR1422 — Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

Targets Iran's energy revenue through global sanctions. This bill would create a broad sanctions framework to punish foreign persons who process, export, or sell Iran-origin oil, condensates, gas, LNG, or petrochemical products. It pairs blocking of assets and visa bans with ownership-based triggers, waivers, humanitarian carve-outs, and new reporting to limit Iran's access to energy markets and finance for weapons and terrorism. - Foreign energy firms and financial institutions would face blocking of property and bans on transactions if they knowingly handle Iran-origin energy or are 50% or more owned by such actors. Associated aliens could become inadmissible and have visas revoked. - Maritime operators, insurers, flag registries, and LNG pipeline facilities would be exposed to sanctions risk when linked to Iran-origin shipments, though safety-of-crew rules and specific exemptions for imports remain. - Humanitarian organizations would keep explicit exemptions for agricultural commodities, food, medicine, medical devices, and humanitarian assistance to avoid disrupting aid. - U.S. agencies and private companies would see new duties: an interagency working group and multilateral contact group would coordinate enforcement, and private-sector reporting would be required to flag evasion and proceeds from intercepted Iran-origin energy sales.