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At https://www.GovTrack.us, we're tracking the United States Congress and the White House. Research & track the bills, votes, and members in the 🇺🇸 Congress and executive orders and other actions by the White House. A civic engagement & government accountability project since 2004. #opengov

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2025-11-20 14:01:44 UTC

H.R. 4405 by Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA17] passed the House and Senate yesterday. Epstein Files Transparency Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr4405 🏛️

2025-10-27 14:38:20 UTC

The CR that hasn’t passed yet ends on Nov 21. It’s Oct 27. Cannot stress enough how irresponsible it is of Speaker Johnson to shut down the House since Sept 19. Among the _many_ things they could do is work on real appropriations bills. Instead, when this CR runs out (passed or not) Congress will be right back where it has been bc the Speaker has refused to allow the House to do its job. They might not have made progress even if they were in session, but they _definitely_ aren’t doing so now.

2025-09-10 16:01:19 UTC

🔜 H.R. 2034 by Rep. Nicole (Nikki) Budzinski [D-IL13]: Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr2034 🏛️

2025-07-31 17:14:20 UTC

"Senators could vote on a bill as soon as Thursday to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand that websites take down information about their houses and details about their travel."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/senators-homes-travel-info-remove-internet-1235397818/
Definitely a NO from us. Public information is public information, and (often wealthy) legislators do not need special protection that the rest of us cannot get.

2025-06-27 15:01:25 UTC

S.Res. 301 by Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN] was agreed to yesterday. A resolution condemning the attacks on Minnesota lawmakers in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, Minnesota and calling for unity and the rejection of political violence in Minnesota and across the United States. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/sres301 🏛️

2025-06-19 20:01:23 UTC

H.R. 2215 by Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA6] passed the House and Senate yesterday. Salem Maritime National Historical Park Redesignation and Boundary Study Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr2215 🏛️

2025-06-18 19:01:23 UTC

S. 1582 by Sen. Bill Hagerty [R-TN] passed the Senate yesterday (→House). GENIUS Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s1582 🏛️

2025-04-03 00:42:12 UTC

So apparently there's now a tariff on a U.S. military base because nobody at the White House actually knows anything about the "countries" they put on the list, or where our military bases are, and so they put an island with a U.S. base on the list. In case you thought there was some 3D chess going on. No.

2025-03-12 21:03:54 UTC

President Trump declared today that the highest ranking elected Jew, Sen. Schumer, is not Jewish anymore.
The level of anti-semitism from Trump and the Trump Administration has been off the charts since before he took office the first time. It is dangerous and consistent with Trump's policies toward anyone that isn't white enough and loyal enough to him.
Nobody gets to decide who is and isn't a Jew or what political views or values are Jewish enough. Nor does it depend on support for Israel.

2025-02-11 01:55:02 UTC

In a few days we're going to be asking for your financial support to expand our work. Are you excited?

2025-02-04 01:45:31 UTC

A lot of know-it-alls are tooting on the birdsite that Trump can dissolve USAID, the foreign assistance organization. But, as per usual, that's false.
USAID is created by statute. Its funding is directed by statute. It can only be reorganized after notice to Congress (which Trump did in his first term) and it cannot be legally dissolved without a law passed by Congress.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500

2025-02-02 18:14:51 UTC

The Trump Administration has stopped payments or fired people in the name of saving money. But the appropriations have already been made: The money is marked to be spent by statutory law. It doesn't get returned to taxpayers. What happens isn't exactly clear (in part because appropriations expire soon). But what's certain is that they are not changing any long term policy by doing this. So when the next round of appropriations becomes law, will they defy the law again? And again?

2025-01-17 16:04:49 UTC

To recap: Congress passed a bill aimed specifically at TikTok demanding that its parent company divest ownership or be banned in the US. The deadline was two days from now, 1/19/25. The Supreme Court just ruled the law is constitutional. Trump has been saying he’ll make it go away. How might that work? Looking at the text, it seems that it depends on a President designating a company in a specific way - so perhaps they’ll back out by changing the TikTok designation? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr7521/text

2025-01-14 18:04:06 UTC

Sen. Mullin also said as a defense of Hegseth that plenty of Senators come to work drunk and no one ever names them. As a government transparency group, we would welcome Sen. Mullin letting us know which Senators are coming to work unable to do the job due to drunkenness.

2025-01-06 16:01:04 UTC

Rep. Raúl Grijalva [D-AZ7] may be missing. He missed 455 of 468 roll call votes (97%) since 02/28/24. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/missing 🏛️

2024-12-23 13:22:18 UTC

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Bottom line, as @jamiedupree.bsky.social noted on X, she never took a leave of absence and staff made multiple efforts to give the impression that she was still an active member by, for example, inserting content into the Congressional Record of “speeches” she gave. We sympathize with Rep. Granger and her family, but this left constituents unfairly in the dark.

2024-12-23 13:21:17 UTC

Last night CNN published a story on almost former Rep. Kay Granger that differed in a number of details from that of the original story from the Dallas Express. CNN talked to her family and staff, who said she wasn’t in memory care but was having “dementia issues”. Your GovTracker has had recent experience with a family member in memory care who did not initially have an official diagnosis of dementia, so it’s not clear to me the distinction the family is drawing. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/politics/kay-granger-congresswoman-dementia-issues/index.html

2024-12-05 18:57:24 UTC

2025 Senate Schedule is out. Per reporters on X:
- 180 in-session days. Compare that to just 102 this year.
- No recess until mid-March
- Friday sessions
- no sizable break again until August
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2024-11-14 02:39:49 UTC

If the House Ethics Committee never releases its report on allegations related to now-former Rep. Gaetz, the allegations will remain listed on his page on GovTrack forever. (Anything he's found not guilty of we'd normally remove. But he will never be found not guilty if there is no report.)
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/matt_gaetz/412690
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2024-11-06 14:02:27 UTC

The Senate has flipped to GOP control, but the House isn’t settled yet. It’ll be a narrow margin for whichever party gains the House majority.

2024-10-02 21:35:15 UTC

A major piece of legislation that used to be considered “must pass” is the Farm Bill. However, as this article shows, the latest iteration - which was scheduled for 2023 - has been a victim of this Congress’s inability to work together, intra- or inter- party.
https://alabamareflector.com/2024/10/02/delayed-farm-bill-punted-until-after-election-with-congress-stuck-on-how-to-pay-for-it/

2024-09-13 20:02:23 UTC

To recap: the Republican Presidential & Vice Presidential candidates are pushing a completely false and racist lie about legal immigrants in Springfield, OH that has led to two days of bomb threats.
Further, the Presidential candidate is threatening to deport these folks _who have done nothing wrong_ to Venezuela because maybe 78 is also too old to run for President.

2024-08-07 17:39:26 UTC

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A few weeks ago we wrote about the record of Trump's pick, Sen. JD Vance:
Vance joined Democrats in cosponsoring bills to ban sales of an increasingly common method of suicide, claw back bank executives' compensation when banks go under, and increasing fines on railroad companies. But the bills he introduced himself largely dealt with "red meat" social and culture-war issues, such as immigration, affirmative action, race, and transgender issues.
https://www.govtrack.us/posts/431/2024-07-17_trumps-vp-pick-sen-jd-vance-his-most-interesting-bills-in-congress

2024-08-07 17:34:47 UTC

Harris’s 2024 VP pick is former Rep. Tim Walz: Walz's bills focused on veterans' health care and employment, many of which had bipartisan support and were enacted. He also introduced bills to limit stock trading by legislators and corporations' spending on elections, bills to promote energy independence and green energy, and bills on agricultural issues including farm soil health.
Here's our analysis of his 2007-2018 record in Congress:
https://www.govtrack.us/posts/437/2024-08-07_harriss-vp-pick-former-rep-tim-walz-his-most-interesting-bills-in-congress