This resolution calls on (1) all other countries to cease and desist from implementing any digital services tax (DST) or similar measure, repeal existing DSTs, and immediately stop unfairly targeting U.S. companies; and (2) U.S. government agencies to use all available methods and resources to protect U.S. companies from the discriminatory effects of DSTs.It also supports appropriate tax and trade tools, including Section 301 investigations into the implementation or proposal of DSTs by any nation. (Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 authorizes the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to investigate and take action to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and respond to certain foreign trade practices.)

H.Res. 1152 is a commemorative resolution expressing recognition for the contributions of American cowboys and historic cattle trails to U.S. history. The resolution honors the cultural and economic significance of the cowboy tradition and the major cattle drives that took place after the Civil War, including journeys over trails like the Chisholm Trail and Goodnight-Loving Trail across states from Texas to Montana. It acknowledges that these cattle drives, which moved millions of Texas longhorns to northern markets, helped rebuild the nation's economy and establish the modern beef and cattle industry while also recognizing the diverse contributions of Mexican, Black, Native American, and White cowboys to this history. The resolution does not authorize any funding or establish timelines but instead encourages local communities to celebrate this cowboy heritage as part of the nation's 250th anniversary celebration planned for July 4, 2026. This resolution affects cultural and historical communities nationwide, particularly in rural areas and states along historic cattle trail routes, by promoting tourism and recognition of this American legacy.

H.R. 8101, the Ensuring Better Interest Treatment and Deductibility Act, would change how businesses can deduct interest expenses on their taxes by repealing a recent modification to the definition of "adjusted taxable income." Specifically, the bill removes one component of the tax code that limits how much business interest companies can write off, making it easier for businesses—particularly larger corporations and partnerships—to deduct interest payments. The legislation would take effect for tax years beginning after December 31, 2025. The bill was introduced in March 2026 by a group of House Republicans and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, but no specific funding amounts are mentioned since it primarily modifies existing tax rules rather than appropriating new money.

H. Con. Res. 76 is a commemorative resolution honoring Chief Richard LaMunyon of the Wichita Police Department for founding the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) for Special Olympics in 1981. The resolution recognizes how a single interaction at the Special Olympics in 1979 inspired Chief LaMunyon to create a fundraising initiative that has grown into the world's largest grassroots movement supporting Special Olympics, now involving over 150,000 law enforcement officers across all 50 states, Canadian provinces, and more than 25 countries. Since its inception, the LETR has raised over $1.1 billion to support individuals with intellectual disabilities. The resolution commends both Chief LaMunyon's visionary leadership and the thousands of officers who continue the effort today. As a concurrent resolution, this legislation serves purely to express congressional recognition and does not authorize any funding or create binding policy.

This bill delays a Medicare physician payment policy that was set to take effect in 2026. Specifically, it prevents the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing an "efficiency adjustment" to how Medicare calculates payments for physician services until January 1, 2030, at the earliest. The bill affects doctors and healthcare providers who bill Medicare, as well as beneficiaries who depend on Medicare coverage. The legislation requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit a report to Congress within two years assessing whether this adjustment is necessary, and if implemented after 2030, it can only happen once with strict conditions, including physician consultation and limits on which services are affected. The bill also modifies Medicare payment conversion factors for 2026, increasing them from 0.75 percent to 1.24 percent for certain qualified providers, while returning to the lower rates for 2027 and beyond.

H.R. 7096, the Ensuring Seniors' Access to Quality Care Act, modifies Medicare and Medicaid rules regarding which nursing facilities can operate nursing aide training and competency evaluation programs. The bill tightens approval standards by preventing facilities that have faced certain enforcement actions—such as civil money penalties of $12,924 or more combined with quality-of-care deficiencies, or other specified remedies—from running these training programs. The legislation affects senior citizens who rely on Medicare and Medicaid for nursing care, as well as nursing facilities that operate under these federal programs. The bill contains no new appropriations or specific implementation timeline, instead amending existing Social Security Act provisions that govern these programs. The intent is to help ensure that only facilities meeting quality standards can train new nursing aides who will care for elderly and disabled beneficiaries.

H.R. 6569 requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include the budgetary effects of executive actions and judicial decisions in its baseline budget calculations, which serve as the starting point for estimating the cost of legislation. Currently, these actions are typically not factored into baseline projections, potentially obscuring their true fiscal impact. The bill requires federal agencies to submit detailed documentation to the CBO within ten days of implementing any executive action, including implementation guidance and relevant data. Additionally, the CBO must publish a separate table in its reports showing any executive or judicial actions estimated to cost at least $50 billion over a ten-year period. The changes apply to all future CBO baseline calculations and reports unless the budget committees of both chambers direct otherwise, with no specific funding or implementation deadline mentioned beyond the ten-day agency reporting requirement.

H.R. 5036 would allow Sedgwick County, Kansas to convert Northeast Sedgwick County Park to a non-recreational use, removing restrictions that currently apply because the park received federal funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Typically, when public parks receive federal grants through this program, they must remain dedicated to outdoor recreation in perpetuity. This bill specifically exempts Northeast Sedgwick County Park from that requirement, giving local officials flexibility to repurpose the land for other uses if they choose. The legislation does not provide new funding and contains no specific timeline for implementation—it simply removes the federal restriction that has been in place due to past federal investments in the park.

Protecting Air Ambulance Services for Americans Act of 2025This bill authorizes payment changes under Medicare for air ambulance services based on certain collected data and requires additional reporting from providers of these services.Current law requires providers of air ambulance services to report certain information regarding general costs and utilization to the Department of Health and Human Services; private health insurers are also required to report information relating to coverage of these services. The bill authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise payment rates under Medicare for air ambulance services based on this data, and it requires providers of air ambulance services to specifically report information relating to costs and utilization under Medicare.The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the data that is collected under current law requirements and to recommend changes to Medicare payment rates accordingly.

The Financing Our Energy Future Act expands the tax benefits available to publicly traded partnerships (PTPs) by allowing them to own and operate a wide range of clean energy and alternative fuel projects. Currently, PTPs can only own certain natural resource extraction businesses, but this bill would let them invest in electric power generation from renewable sources, energy storage facilities, advanced nuclear plants, carbon capture projects, renewable fuel production, and hydrogen infrastructure, among other activities. The legislation essentially opens up the PTP business structure—which offers tax advantages and allows public investment—to the emerging clean energy sector. The changes apply to tax years beginning after December 31, 2025, meaning investors and energy companies could begin organizing qualifying projects under this structure starting in 2026. This change aims to increase private capital flowing into green energy infrastructure by making these investments more attractive to publicly traded companies and their shareholders.

The Unfair Tax Prevention Act modifies how the base erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT) applies to certain foreign-owned businesses that are subject to "extraterritorial taxes" imposed by other countries. Extraterritorial taxes are taxes that foreign countries impose on corporations based on income earned by connected entities elsewhere, rather than just the corporation's direct operations. The bill creates special rules so that these foreign-owned entities face stricter BEAT requirements, including treating half of their cost of goods sold as a taxable deduction reduction and removing certain exemptions that would otherwise apply. The legislation applies to taxable years beginning after it becomes law and was introduced by a bipartisan group of House representatives in March 2025. The intent appears to be protecting U.S. tax revenue by preventing companies with foreign ownership from using certain tax benefits to reduce their U.S. tax obligations when they're already paying extraterritorial taxes abroad.

Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act This bill creates new federal crimes related to the performance of an abortion on an unborn child who has Down syndrome. It subjects a violator to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both. It also authorizes civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief. A woman who undergoes such an abortion may not be prosecuted or held civilly liable.

H.R. 2186 modifies tax rules governing how the IRS determines stock ownership in foreign corporations, particularly targeting situations where foreign entities control U.S. shareholders. The bill restores a limitation preventing the IRS from attributing foreign-owned stock downward to U.S. persons when applying constructive ownership rules, and creates new tax provisions for "foreign controlled United States shareholders" who own more than 50 percent of certain foreign corporations. The legislation affects U.S. persons and businesses with significant foreign investments, as well as multinational corporations navigating the tax code's controlled foreign corporation provisions. The changes take effect for the last taxable year of foreign corporations beginning before January 1, 2025, and continue for all subsequent years, with corresponding application to U.S. taxpayers whose tax years align with those foreign corporations. No funding is specified in the bill, as it is primarily a technical tax code amendment.

This bill restores tax deductions for research and experimental expenditures by amending the Internal Revenue Code. The legislation allows businesses to immediately deduct research and development costs as regular business expenses, or alternatively, to spread those costs over a minimum 60-month period if they prefer. The bill affects all companies and individuals engaged in research and development activities across industries, enabling them to reduce their taxable income based on qualifying R&D spending. The legislation has a retroactive effective date to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021, meaning it would allow businesses to claim deductions for eligible R&D expenses dating back several years. The bill is supported by a bipartisan group of House members and is intended to encourage innovation and competitiveness by reducing the tax burden on businesses that invest in research and development.

This resolution expresses condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the crash of American Eagle Flight 5342 and the U.S. Army helicopter flying under the call sign PAT 25 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29, 2025.The resolution also commends the heroic actions of the first responders, emergency services personnel, and all those who aided in the recovery efforts.

H.R. 1378 extends a tax benefit for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands related to distilled spirits production. Currently, a portion of federal excise taxes collected on distilled spirits is "covered over," or returned, to these territories to support their economies. This bill extends the temporary increase in that tax return amount by 10 years, moving the expiration date from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2032. The change applies to all distilled spirits brought into the United States after December 31, 2021. The bill was introduced in February 2025 and referred to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Restore Economic Vitality and Investment in the Virgin Islands Act or the REVIVE VI ActThis bill allows certain U.S. shareholders of a controlled foreign corporation to exclude qualified Virgin Islands service income from the calculation of global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) for federal tax purposes. It also requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to issue guidance on the exclusion. (Some limitations apply.)Under current law, U.S. shareholders that own 10% or more of a controlled foreign corporation are required to include in gross income the GILTI of the controlled foreign corporation. The calculation of GILTI is based, in part, on the controlled foreign corporation’s tested income (the controlled foreign corporation’s gross income excluding certain types of income and dividends).Under the bill, specified U.S. shareholders (individuals, trusts, estates, and certain closely-held C corporations) may exclude qualified Virgin Islands service income from a controlled foreign corporation’s gross income for purposes of calculating the controlled foreign corporation’s tested income.The bill defines qualified Virgin Islands service income as gross income that iscompensation for labor or personal services performed in the Virgin Islands by a corporation formed under Virgin Islands laws,attributable to services performed in the Virgin Islands by individuals for the benefit of such corporation, andeffectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the Virgin Islands.Finally, the bill requires the IRS to issue guidance on the exclusion of qualified Virgin Island service income from the GILTI calculation.

The Help Independent Tracks Succeed Act (HITS Act) expands tax benefits for sound recording production by allowing music producers and record labels to immediately deduct qualified sound recording costs rather than spreading those expenses over multiple years. The bill modifies the Internal Revenue Code to treat qualified sound recordings the same way the tax code already treats films, television productions, and theatrical productions. The law caps the deduction at $150,000 per sound recording production and $150,000 total per year across all such productions. This provision takes effect for productions that begin in tax years after the bill's enactment and aims to make it more affordable for independent artists and smaller recording companies to produce music in the United States.