A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for payments to certain individuals who dye fuel, and for other purposes.

S524 — Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025

Coast Guard capacity is the focus: the bill funds operations, raises staffing targets, and rewrites acquisition rules to modernize ships, aircraft, and maintenance. It pairs specific dollar authorizations with new buying rules and reporting on icebreakers and polar cutters. - Coast Guard personnel and readiness gain explicit targets. Total end strength is raised from 2,500 to 3,000 and aircraft crew levels from 165 to 200, with higher training capacity metrics. - Shipbuilders and the Coast Guard Yard face new procurement rules and reporting. The bill creates Service Life Extension Programs, requires life‑cycle cost estimates, reclassifies major projects, and limits floating drydocks to U.S. construction and defined acquisition paths. The minor construction threshold rises to $2 million. - Great Lakes and Arctic operations get clearer plans and oversight. The Commandant must deliver a Great Lakes icebreaker design and run a five‑season pilot to target keeping key waterways open 95% of the time. A Polar Security Cutter acquisition report is due within 120 days and regular briefings follow. Authorizes roughly $11.3 billion for FY2025 and $11.9 billion for FY2026 for the Coast Guard primary account, plus other specified accounts and retiree costs, representing near‑term federal outlays for operations and acquisitions.

S944 — Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Active Transportation Safety Act

Would prioritize and fund safer walking and biking projects by adding bicycle and pedestrian connectivity and vulnerable-road-user risk reduction to the Highway Safety Improvement Program. It would create new ways to get federal funding and to credit federal safety funds toward local cost shares when projects use proven countermeasures and planning tools. - Families, pedestrians, and cyclists: Would make it easier to build connections between existing bike and pedestrian segments and to fund projects that reduce risks for vulnerable road users identified in local safety plans. - State and local transportation agencies: Would allow qualifying projects to receive up to 100 percent federal share and let non-federal matches be calculated across projects or credited when projects meet defined safety or planning criteria. - Planners, tribes, and regional organizations: Would let pedestrian safety plans, Complete Streets plans, Vision Zero plans, ADA transition plans, Tribal plans, and other documented safety strategies count toward crediting and project eligibility, boosting local leverage for improvements.

S1262 — A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in certain land in the Black River State Forest in Millston, Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

Would clear a federal Bankhead-Jones reversionary claim by authorizing a targeted land exchange in Black River State Forest, Wisconsin. It would swap about 31.8 acres of state forest for roughly 37.3 acres owned by Deli, Inc., a sphagnum moss producer in Millston, and the exchange would need approval from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Natural Resources Board, and the Governor, after which the Secretary of Agriculture would provide a quitclaim deed transferring the federal interest to the State without payment.

S184 — CURD Act

Establishes a legal definition of "natural cheese" and limits use of that label to products that meet that definition. This bill would add a new definition to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that covers cheeses made by coagulating milk protein (for example with rennet) or by processing techniques that yield similar cheese, and it would allow certain safe non-milk ingredients. It expressly excludes pasteurized process cheeses, cheese foods, spreads, cold pack cheeses, grated American cheese food, and similar process products. A product could be labeled "natural cheese" only if it meets the new definition, though plain "natural" or "all-natural" claims remain allowed when they follow regulations, guidance, or policy from the Secretary. The bill would also update national uniformity rules to fold this new labeling provision into existing standards-of-identity enforcement.

SRES340 — A resolution designating July 30, 2025, as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day".

National Whistleblower Appreciation Day is designated for July 30, 2025 to spotlight and promote the legal right to report wrongdoing. It directs the Federal Government to encourage each executive agency to inform employees, contractors, and the public about honest, good-faith reporting of misconduct, fraud, misdemeanors, or other crimes and to acknowledge whistleblowers' contributions to combating waste, fraud, abuse, and violations of U.S. laws and regulations.

SRES255 — A resolution honoring the life, achievements, and legacy of former United States Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri.

Honors the life and public service of Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond. The resolution summarizes his career as Missouri State Auditor, two-term Governor, and four-term U.S. Senator and highlights his work on housing, Parents as Teachers, literacy, care for women and children, support for farmers, and national defense. It records his death on May 13, 2025, notes survivors Linda, his son Sam, and two grandchildren, and directs transmission of the resolution to his family and the House and adjournment as a mark of respect.