119 HR 968
Time of Service Act
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
2025-03-05
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R · Harris, Andy (Maryland)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
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Executive branch (framing — read with awareness)
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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 →VR&E: Improving development and delivery of individualized rehabilitation plans
VA is proposing changes to make VR&E more efficient and easier for Veterans to access the services they need, by eliminating Vocational Rehabilitation Panels.
Read on news.va.gov →MAXHUB Pivot Client Application
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may enable an attacker to access tenant email addresses and associated information in cleartext or cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of MAXHUB Pivot client application are affected: MAXHUB P
Read on cisa.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 →Congressional Bills S. 98 and S. 1020 Signed into Law
On Monday, May 11, 2026, the President signed into law: S. 98, the “Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025,” which requires the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish a vetting process for applicants for high-cost universal service prog
Read on whitehouse.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.
FTC to Co-Host Workshop on Financial Services with Institute for Consumer Financial Choice on May 14-15
Workshop will focus on marketplace developments in five years since the creation of Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law The Federal Trade Commission will co-host a workshop on May 14-15, 2026, with George Mason University Law School’s Institute for Consumer Financial Choi
Read on ftc.gov →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 →Recommendations for Congress: Action Can Cut Costs, Reduce Waste, and Improve Services
What GAO Found Matters for congressional consideration are recommendations that GAO makes to Congress to address findings from GAO’s work. Since 2000, GAO has recommended that Congress consider more than 1,150 matters, and nearly 80 percent of them have closed. Addressing these c
Read on gao.gov →U.S. Ports of Entry: Update on CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs
What GAO Found Since GAO's January 2024 report, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continued to expand its public-private partnership programs—the Reimbursable Services Program (RSP) and the Donations Acceptance Program (DAP). The RSP ensures partners, such as port authorit
Read on gao.gov →Markets vs Bill
Computed consensus across 1 related market
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