Contracting America First Act

HR471 — Fix Our Forests Act

Speeds hazardous fuels reduction and wildfire resilience by creating designated fireshed areas, a joint Fireshed Center, and new authorities that would streamline planning, data sharing, and on-the-ground restoration across federal, Tribal, state, local, private, and nonprofit lands. - Communities and households: At-risk communities would get coordinated mapping, smoke forecasting, and a unified grant application to make funding for home hardening and local projects easier to access. - Tribal governments and state/local partners: Tribes or Governors could trigger shared‑stewardship agreements within 90 days to join cross‑boundary planning and fireshed assessments that prioritize tribal water supplies and community risk. - Forest managers, utilities, and responders: Agencies would gain faster project authorities including NEPA exemptions for designated firesheds, higher Healthy Forests Restoration Act project thresholds (10,000 acres), a 150‑foot hazard‑tree clearance for power lines, expanded contracting tools, and intra‑agency strike teams to speed environmental reviews and implementation. Note: The sources set many deadlines, reporting rules, pilot programs, and several seven‑year sunsets but do not provide a specific federal cost estimate.

HR4706 — Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act

Limits foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land and residential real estate by covered foreign entities. The bill would ban certain foreign entities from acquiring or leasing farm land and place a temporary prohibition on them buying many kinds of housing, while setting divestment deadlines, daily fines, and enforcement tools. - Farmers and rural communities: Covered foreign entities would be barred from acquiring or leasing U.S. agricultural land and forced to divest within one year or face fines of $100 per acre per day, potential criminal penalties up to five years, and forfeiture with public auction. - Homebuyers and housing markets: The bill would impose an initial two year ban on covered foreign entities buying defined residential properties, allow Presidential two year extensions, require divestment within one year, and impose fines of $1,000 per unit per day for violations. - Federal enforcement and agencies: The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce must issue rules and set up enforcement offices within 180 days, and the Attorney General is authorized to seize forfeited property, pursue public auctions, and seek injunctive relief.

HR6225 — PAUSE Act of 2025

This bill would create a nationwide pause on issuing visas and providing immigration status until a set of conditions in the immigration system are met. It would also restrict who can claim birthright citizenship and bar many federal benefits for certain noncitizens. - Families and children: Would restrict birthright citizenship to a child born in the United States only if at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident. It would also allow state and local governments to deny access to public schools for people present without lawful status. - Nonimmigrants and pending applicants: Would prevent nonimmigrants from adjusting to lawful permanent resident status and pause new visas or status grants. It would revoke applications filed before enactment if the new rules make the applicant ineligible and refund any fee paid. - People screened by ideology or affiliation: Would bar lawful status for people described as Islamists or observers of Sharia law, members or associates of the Chinese Communist Party, known or suspected terrorists, or people affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations. - Low-income immigrants and borrowers: Would deny many federal benefits and supports to aliens, including Medicare and Medicaid emergency medical care in certain cases, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP, WIC, premium tax credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, federal student loans, HUD housing assistance, and Small Business Administration loans or guarantees.

HR2395 — SHORT Act

Reclassifies short‑barreled rifles and shotguns under federal law and limits state oversight. The SHORT Act would change the Internal Revenue Code and Title 18 to treat certain short‑barreled weapons differently, create a federal safe harbor for people who comply with Chapter 44, preempt state taxes and registration rules, and require destruction of some National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record entries. - Owners who follow federal Chapter 44 rules would be regarded as meeting any state or local registration or licensing requirement for short‑barreled rifles and shotguns. - States and localities would be barred from imposing taxes other than general sales or use taxes, or from requiring markings, recordkeeping, or registration for short‑barreled rifles and shotguns that affect interstate commerce. - The Attorney General would have to destroy within 365 days certain NFRTR registrations and transfer and maker applications that identify owners or makers of those weapons.

HRES448 — Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the Cover-Up of President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s Cognitive and Physical Health Decline.

Create a special House committee to investigate alleged concealment of President Biden's cognitive and physical health decline. This bill would define the committee's membership, investigative topics, powers, staff rules, and deadlines.

HR5106 — Restore Trust in Congress Act

A ban on Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children owning or trading certain investments during federal service. It sets clear definitions for covered investments, deadlines for divestiture, narrow exemptions, and penalties to curb conflicts of interest and increase transparency. - Members of Congress and families: Prohibits direct or indirect ownership or trading of defined “covered investments” while serving. People covered on enactment must divest within 180 days and those who become covered afterward have 90 days to divest. - Ethics offices and enforcement: The supervising ethics office issues guidance, can grant extensions for liquidity or vesting, and manages Certificates of Divestiture tied to tax rules. Violations carry a 10 percent fee of the investment value, disgorgement of profits, and public posting of assessed fines, with payments to the Treasury. - Trusts and narrow exceptions: Qualified Blind Trusts must be divested while Family Trust exemptions are allowed only if covered individuals did not contribute, act as grantor, or control the trust. An Occupational Exception lets a spouse or dependent trade when it matches their primary job.