119 HR 8494
To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2026-04-23
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Cosponsors (showing 10 of 19)
D · McClain Delaney, April (Maryland)D · Clarke, Yvette D. (New York)D · Ramirez, Delia C. (Illinois)D · Norton, Eleanor Holmes (District of Columbia)D · Goldman, Daniel S. (New York)D · García, Jesús G. "Chuy" (Illinois)D · Morrison, Kelly (Minnesota)D · Thanedar, Shri (Michigan)D · Salinas, Andrea (Oregon)D · Davis, Danny K. (Illinois)Persona Takes on This Bill
Statement-vs-Vote Gap (Pressure Desk)
The War Powers flood and CFPB disapprovals are unified by a gap between public legislative urgency and zero structural path to passage — these are electoral record-building instruments being described as legislative pressure campaigns.
The gap I'm tracking today is between the volume of legislative language and the absence of any cross-aisle commitment. Nine War Powers resolutions in roughly three weeks — that is an extraordinary number of separately introduced instruments. Each introduction generates floor statements, press releases, constituent mailings, and earned media. Gottheimer's 119hconres75 even got a unanimous consent agreement that sounds like a breakthrough. But the UC agreement was structured so that the Republican committee chair holds the trigger. That gap — between the appearance of procedural progress and the reality of Republican gate-keeping — is the core deception in today's legislative record. Someone said 'we secured a path to the floor.' The record says that path has a Republican-controlled lock on it. The FEC data in this input does not include specific independent expenditure figures for named candidates in this cycle, so I cannot cite specific dollar flows anchoring this analysis — that's a gap I'll flag rather than paper over. What I can say is that the pattern of behavior here is consistent with a minority party building an electoral record rather than passing legislation. The sponsors — Gottheimer, Moulton, Jayapal, Huffman, Balint — span the Democratic ideological spectrum from center to progressive. That breadth is itself a signal: this is being built as a coalition document for 2026 campaign use, not a negotiated vehicle with majority-party buy-in. On the CFPB resolutions: Green and Beatty introducing disapprovals with zero cosponsors and no Republican engagement is the definition of a statement vote that will never happen. The CFPB rule withdrawals being targeted were controversial and drew industry lobbying; the silence of the financial services industry on these disapproval resolutions — no public opposition, no counter-mobilization — tells you exactly how threatened they are by these bills. They aren't. The market for these resolutions is the constituent newsletter, not the committee markup.
2026-05-13
Federal Agencies on This Bill
Posts from federal agencies in the last 24 hours that match this bill's identifier or title keywords. Grouped by voice class — executive framing carries the administration's perspective; regulators speak to implementation; oversight bodies aim for neutrality. Read across, not just within, a single voice class.
Executive branch (framing — read with awareness)
Press releases and statements from cabinet departments and the White House. These are the administration's own framing on the bill or its policy area, not neutral analysis.
US Department of Labor recovers $171K in back wages for 32 workers shortchanged overtime pay by Hawaii rehabilitation services employer
HONOLULU – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $171,897 in back wages from a physical therapy and rehabilitation clinic after an investigation determined the employer denied 32 employees full overtime pay at three of its facilities, in violation of federal law.Investigator
Read on dol.gov →Trump Administration proposes rule to expand access to fertility benefits with new legal pathway for employers to offer benefits directly to employees
WASHINGTON – The U.S. departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury announced a proposed rule that would create a new category of limited excepted benefits to further expand the ability of employers to offer meaningful fertility benefits to their employees. T
Read on dol.gov →Regulators (rule-making and recall language)
Output from FDA, CDC, EPA, SEC, FCC, FTC, NHTSA and similar bodies. These are typically issuing rules under existing statutory authority — useful signal for which provisions of a bill would actually be implemented and where.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Rehabilitation Long-Term Training (RLTT) Program Payback Information Management System (PIMS)
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
Read on federalregister.gov →Independent oversight (CBO, GAO, Federal Register, Congress.gov)
Non-partisan analysis: CBO cost scoring, GAO investigations, Federal Register rule publications, and Congress.gov legislative tracking. The closest thing to neutral framing on a bill's likely effect.
High-Tech Medical Equipment: VA Has Opportunities to Improve Its Acquisition of Maintenance Services
What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to buy and maintain high-tech medical equipment (HTME)—such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment—to deliver health care to veterans. To maintain this equipment, and help ensu
Read on gao.gov →Department of Energy: Action Needed to Approve Advanced Test Reactor Spent Fuel Plan
What GAO Found The Department of Energy (DOE) faces two challenges affecting Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) operations in the near term. First, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Naval Reactors (Naval Reactors) is finding it increasingly difficult to mee
Read on gao.gov →Markets vs Bill
Computed consensus across 8 related markets
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