Senate Bills

This bill offers temporary federal help for Alaska and other remote states by giving small businesses tax credits for high freight and fuel costs, easing some shipping and rural fuel compliance where safety is preserved, and funding limited infrastructure like cold storage, ports, and last-mile delivery. It also requires regular reporting to Congress and ties the relief to measurable consumer cost reductions.

This bill aims to ease inflation and strengthen U.S. supply chains by offering temporary tax credits and faster depreciation for advanced manufacturing investments, while speeding up permits for facilities that still must meet current labor and environmental rules. It also pushes more domestic sourcing of critical industrial inputs and requires Congress to receive regular reports on prices, jobs, and production capacity.

This bill boosts border enforcement by adding surveillance technology, inspection capacity, and personnel at busy border areas and ports of entry, while improving tracking of visa overstays and punishing repeated immigration fraud. It also includes due process language, protections for lawful trade and travel, and reporting requirements to Congress on enforcement results.

This bill would create competitive Justice Department grants for local governments and partnerships to reduce violent crime through a mix of police coordination, anti-gang enforcement, youth outreach, victim support, crime analysis, and help prosecuting repeat violent offenders. It prioritizes high-crime areas that show cooperation across law enforcement, schools, prosecutors, and community groups, with annual reporting on spending and results.

The bill boosts funding for Border Patrol, asylum officers, immigration judges, and support staff while expanding surveillance, detention, and transport capacity at the border. It also prioritizes expedited removal and prosecution for repeat unlawful entrants and people charged with trafficking fentanyl or its precursors, with quarterly public reporting on enforcement and detention metrics.

This bill expands immigration enforcement support by funding rural states for border-related operations, detention transport, law-enforcement tech, and jail reimbursement tied to federal immigration holds, while increasing penalties for trafficking and repeat smuggling. It also pressures state and local governments to cooperate with federal detainers, inmate information-sharing, and joint interior enforcement in order to receive certain DHS assistance.

This bill aims to lower electricity and fuel costs by expanding domestic energy production and speeding up federal permitting for power plants, pipelines, transmission, and other reliability projects. It sets firm review deadlines, reduces overlapping permitting requirements, and emphasizes baseload power, grid reliability, and reporting to Congress on cost and market effects.

This bill uses federal grants, tax incentives, and low-interest financing to encourage more affordable housing through zoning reform, office-to-housing conversions, and transit-oriented infill. It also ties some housing funds to renter protections like clear leases, habitability standards, advance notice of big rent hikes, and just-cause eviction rules where state law allows.

This bill boosts DHS funding for southern border surveillance, inspection technology, patrol staffing, and interdiction, while sending targeted aid to Texas communities strained by migrant processing. It also expands immigration court and removal capacity for repeat illegal reentry cases and requires quarterly public reporting on costs, processing times, and enforcement results.

This bill aims to lower inflation pressure in rural areas by investing in domestic supply capacity, freight transportation improvements, and targeted rural energy and storage projects. It also offers temporary tax credits to small businesses in rural counties facing documented spikes in energy, freight, or raw material costs, with anti-abuse safeguards.