Monday, April 27th, 2026
Immigration Enforcement Reconciliation: The Senate passed S.Con.Res.33 (50-48), which is a $70 million blueprint for long-term immigration enforcement funding. The budget resolution instructs both the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary Committees to write legislation that will raise the federal deficit by no more than $70 billion each. The resolution’s approval in both chambers allows the Senate to bypass the filibuster and pass fiscal policy with a simple majority rather than the typical 60 votes necessary to move legislation. The new funding would be expected to run through Trump’s presidency, which ends in January 2029. The House is set to take up the measure the week of April 27th.
Reliable Federal Infrastructure: The House passed H.R.4690 (215-202), which would modernize federal building standards by repealing rigid energy efficiency mandates, specifically Section 433 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. It seeks to lower construction costs, accelerate project timelines, and ensure project-specific flexibility.
Fire Improvement and Reforming Exceptional Events (FIRE): The House passed H.R.6387 (220-198), which would encourage wildfire mitigation efforts and clarify how those efforts would be treated with respect to air quality monitoring protocols under the 1963 Clean Air Act. The bill excludes emissions from wildfires, prescribed burns, and other exceptional events from federal air quality reviews under the Clean Air Act.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews: The House passed H.R.1681, which would require the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to create an interagency “strike force” to prioritize reviews of applications to deploy broadband facilities on federal land.
Emergency Reporting: The House passed H.R.5200, which would strengthen 9-1-1 networks by requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue reports following major natural disasters on the extent to which people were unable to reach 9-1-1, and to develop recommendations to improve outage reporting, resiliency, and coordination with state and local officials. The bill also directs the FCC to review unreported outages and develop recommendations for mobile carriers to better notify 9-1-1 centers of disruptions, ensuring that first responders are not left in the dark during life-threatening events.
Kari’s Law Reporting: The House passed H.R.5201, which would build on the 2018 law by requiring the FCC to report on the extent to which multi-line telephone system (MLTS) manufacturers and vendors have complied with the requirement that callers be able to reach 9-1-1 directly without dialing additional digits. Kari’s Law was enacted after the tragic murder of Kari Hunt in 2013, when her daughter’s repeated attempts to call 9-1-1 from a hotel phone failed because the system required dialing “9” before any call.
Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization: The House passed H.R.2493, which would increase access to health care services and preventive screenings, improve chronic disease management and health outcomes, expand telehealth services, and reduce emergency department visits for the nearly 500,000 individuals who receive direct services from these programs annually.
Build More Hydro: Congress passed S.1020, which would extend construction deadlines for critical hydropower projects nationwide and increase American energy production. Hydropower supplies baseload electricity to over 30 million homes, provides 96% of utility-scale energy storage, and remains vital to flood control, water storage, irrigation, and grid reliability services.
Harnessing Energy At Thermal Sources (HEATS): The House passed H.R.5587 (231-186), which is a bipartisan bill that aims to expedite geothermal development by allowing state permits to replace federal drilling permits on land where the federal government owns less than 50% of the subsurface estate. It classifies these projects as non-major actions, exempting them from NEPA environmental reviews.
Expressing Support for Rural Communities: The House passed H.Res.1182 (220-196), which highlights legislation and policies they say would "unleash domestic energy production, enhance health care quality and access, bolster manufacturing capacity, and increase broadband connectedness."
