Senate Bills

This bill would temporarily cut certain federal fuel taxes for 12 months on dyed diesel, gasoline, and highway diesel used in agriculture, freight hauling, and rural commerce, while directing agencies to help farmers, ranchers, and independent truckers access the relief. It also requires a Rural Inflation Impact Review for major federal regulations that could raise fuel, fertilizer, feed, or agricultural transportation costs.

This bill creates a federal grant program to help rural and medically underserved areas expand outpatient veterans’ clinics, boost nurse staffing through scholarships and loan repayment, and improve telehealth tools and support. It targets places with provider shortages, long travel times, and high veteran populations, with yearly reports to Congress on results.

This bill aims to lower grocery prices by cutting key farm and food supply costs through tax incentives, faster permitting, and grants for fertilizer, fuel refining, and food distribution infrastructure. It also orders USDA, DOE, and DOT to coordinate the rollout, especially in high-need farm states like Iowa, and report results to Congress.

This bill would use tax incentives, loan guarantees, and grants to expand workforce housing in expensive mountain and rural communities, especially in fast-growing Western states. It focuses on building near jobs, schools, and services while helping cover higher infrastructure and site-prep costs and encouraging public-private partnerships.

This bill boosts border staffing and surveillance in high-traffic southern sectors, phases in nationwide E-Verify for new hires, and raises penalties for illegal hiring, document fraud, and labor-related human smuggling. It also gives limited aid to state and local governments strained by immigration enforcement gaps and requires regular reporting on costs and workforce effects.

This bill boosts funding for border surveillance, barriers, and immigration enforcement personnel, while increasing penalties for repeat unlawful entry and trafficking. It also expands federal-state detainer information sharing with due process language and blocks non-emergency federal means-tested benefits for people not lawfully present, while preserving emergency care and disaster aid.

This bill boosts federal affordable housing aid by increasing funding for the National Housing Trust Fund and HUD homelessness grants, while creating targeted help for high-cost and geographically isolated areas. It also expands vouchers and supportive services for vulnerable groups, with an emphasis on local flexibility, cost efficiency, and measurable reductions in housing instability.

This bill aims to lower farm production costs and ease rural inflation by supporting domestic manufacturing of fertilizer and other key farm inputs, improving transportation bottlenecks in agricultural corridors, and requiring public reporting on regional input prices and supply disruptions. It combines industrial incentives, infrastructure prioritization, and market transparency measures to stabilize costs for producers and consumers.

This bill would tighten immigration and visa screening by expanding real-time intelligence sharing, increasing counterterrorism and criminal background checks for high-risk cases, and strengthening identity and fraud checks at ports of entry. It also requires regular reports to Congress on results and civil liberties safeguards.

This bill would increase federal support for healthcare access in rural and coastal underserved areas through grants for community clinics, telehealth broadband investment, and loan repayment incentives to attract doctors, nurses, mental health providers, and emergency workers. It prioritizes geographically isolated communities, including fishing towns and small towns with persistent provider shortages.