Resilient Food Supply Chain and Affordability Act

HR7481 — Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

DHS funding with strict oversight. This bill would set FY2026 funding levels across the Department of Homeland Security and attach detailed reporting, transfer limits, and program rules to many accounts.

HR4317 — PBM Reform Act of 2025

Greater PBM transparency and tighter contract rules would require pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to disclose detailed per‑drug revenues and rebates, protect small "essential" retail pharmacies, and change Medicaid and group plan payment rules across the drug supply chain. The bill would layer reporting, audit rights, pass‑through pricing, and enforcement across Medicare Part D, ERISA/group plans, and Medicaid to spotlight hidden payments and affiliate flows. - Patients and community pharmacies: Would create an "essential retail pharmacy" label for pharmacies in underserved areas and require network access standards and biennial public data starting in 2028, helping small pharmacies show reimbursement and cost differences to plans. - PBMs, plans, and auditors: Would force PBMs to adopt flat bona fide service fees, disclose per‑drug claims, rebates, retained revenue, and affiliate dispensing shares, and give sponsors audit rights and remedies for improper remuneration. - States and Medicaid programs: Would require monthly national acquisition‑cost surveys, ban spread pricing in State Medicaid contracts, and mandate pass‑through pricing with itemized reporting and penalties for false data. Would increase federal spending for implementation by about $336 million in FY2025 and fund ongoing oversight including a $9 million annual IG appropriation.

HR4245 — GLOBE Act of 2025

Advance LGBTQI human rights worldwide. This bill would set a U.S. policy and tools package to reduce violence, discrimination, and criminalization of people based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics by creating new diplomatic posts, funding, sanctions tools, and immigration changes. - People facing persecution and civil society: Would get targeted grants, emergency assistance, technical support, and capacity building through a new Global Equality Fund and a USAID Global Development Partnership, with a focus on historically excluded groups. - Refugees and asylum seekers: Would treat persecution for sexual orientation or gender identity as membership in a particular social group, repeal the asylum filing deadline, expand Priority 2 refugee processing for vulnerable LGBTQI nationals, and expand access to appointed counsel in some proceedings. - U.S. government operations and partners: Would create a permanent Special Envoy and a USAID Senior LGBTQI Coordinator, require PEPFAR partners to train on LGBTQI health needs, allow self-selected sex markers on State Department IDs, publish a biannual sanctions list with visa inadmissibility consequences, and require regular reporting and interagency coordination.

HR5862 — American Energy Independence and Affordability Act

This bill would restore and extend energy tax credits and cost-recovery rules to keep incentives for wind, solar, clean fuels, efficiency upgrades, and clean vehicles available for a longer period. It rewrites timing and eligibility for many existing credits so they apply again or last longer. - Homeowners would keep the residential clean energy tax credit and see a top credit of 30% for qualifying installations. - Wind and solar developers would regain eligibility for key production and investment credits and face a later phaseout tied to a 25% emissions threshold or the year 2032. - Buyers of clean cars and commercial fleets would get extended access to vehicle and refueling credits, with phased increases that reach full value after 2028 and many vehicle credits extended through 2032. - Manufacturers and clean-tech projects would benefit from reinstated advanced manufacturing and production credits and restored cost-recovery rules for energy property. - Sustainable aviation fuel producers would receive per-gallon credits of 35 cents for one category and $1.75 for another, with ASTM-based definitions and some feedstock exclusions.

HR51 — Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Full statehood for Washington, Douglass Commonwealth would admit the District of Columbia as a new state on equal footing, while defining a smaller federal "Capital" and setting staged transitions for courts, property, and federal programs. - Capital residents would gain full congressional representation: two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative. The bill also requires states to allow "absent Capital" residents to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. - The U.S. House would be permanently increased to 436 members and apportionment would be adjusted beginning with the first decennial census after admission. - The bill defines the federal Capital with a required 180-day survey, preserves federal court, prosecutorial, prison, parole, National Guard, and employee benefit arrangements on a temporary basis, and phases those responsibilities to the State as it certifies the necessary laws and personnel are in place.

HR4109 — Recycling and Composting Accountability Act

Build a data-driven national system to measure and grow recycling and composting. This bill would require the EPA to collect standardized national data, expand the National Recycling Strategy to include compostables, inventory materials recovery facilities, and study how materials are diverted from the circular market. - Families and communities would get clearer data on program access, usage rates, inbound contamination, and the average costs and benefits of recycling and composting programs to help local planning. - States, units of local government, and Indian Tribes would provide information to the EPA and receive technical assistance. The EPA must estimate costs and land needs to expand composting and may not impose unfunded mandates. - Federal agencies would face triennial and biennial accountability checks. The Comptroller General must report every 2 years through 2033 on agencies' recycling and composting rates and on procurement of recycled and compostable products. - Recycling and composting markets would gain better end-market data. The bill updates Save Our Seas 2.0 reporting to include domestic and international sales per ton and requires a separate compostable-materials end-market report and a study on material-specific market diversion. - Implementation timelines include an MRF inventory within 3 years and every 4 years after, development of a diversion metric within 1 year, and a follow-up study on the prior 10 years after the metric. Would authorize $4.0 million per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029 to support EPA activities under this act.