September 20, 2026
Over the last seven days (Sep 14, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026), Congress introduced new bills, moved measures through committees, took floor votes, and enacted some into law. This page pulls those signals together in one place.
| Bills introduced | 286 |
| Bills with actions recorded | 594 |
| Laws enacted | 2 |
| Recorded floor votes | 26 |
| Committee activity records | 594 |
All counts are based on official congressional data, assembled and normalized by LegiList.
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
View the full bill history, actions, subjects, and vote links on LegiList: https://legilist.com/bill/119/hconres/93
Recently sponsored bills
| Bill | Title | Status / Last action |
|---|---|---|
| HR 10396 | To prohibit the use of Federal funds to install new permanent fencing around the United States Capitol, any of the Capitol Buildings, or any portion of the Capitol Grounds. |
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Last action: Sep 15, 2026 |
Recently cosponsored bills
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HR 8378 | Pets Belong with Families Act | Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. |
| HR 8629 | Developing the Community Health Workforce Act of 2026 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means |
| HR 9423 | Organic Imports Verification Act of 2026 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. |
| HR 9693 | Patients First Act of 2026 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means |
| HR 10437 | To improve the English language and literacy skills of English language learners and their families, and for other purposes. | Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. |
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Recent bill activity
| Bill | Activity | Date |
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S 5433 A bill to authorize the Federal Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Program, a comprehensive initiative to improve the health of Federal wildland firefighters, and for other purposes. |
Referred To | Sep 17, 2026 |
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HR 8193 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building". |
Referred To | Sep 17, 2026 |
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HR 7365 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as the "Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building". |
Referred To | Sep 17, 2026 |
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S 5427 A bill to require annual reports on the implementation of the strategic plan to counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations. |
Referred To | Sep 17, 2026 |
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HR 9394 Civil Preparedness for Agroterrorism Exercise Act of 2026 |
Referred To | Sep 16, 2026 |
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HR 7443 I&A Mission Reorientation Act of 2026 |
Referred To | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Date | Chamber / Roll Call | Question & Result |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 |
Senate Roll Call 238 |
Question:
On the Nomination PN999-4 Result: Nomination Confirmed Yea 49 · Nay 45 · Present 0 · Not Voting 6 |
| Sep 17, 2026 |
Senate Roll Call 237 |
Question:
On the Cloture Motion PN999-4 Result: Cloture Motion Agreed to Yea 49 · Nay 47 · Present 0 · Not Voting 4 |
| Sep 17, 2026 |
Senate Roll Call 236 Related bill: S. 4668 |
Question:
On the Motion to Proceed S. 4668 Result: Motion to Proceed Agreed to Yea 77 · Nay 22 · Present 0 · Not Voting 1 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 314 Related bill: S 2403 |
Question:
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Result: Passed Yea 401 · Nay 14 · Present 0 · Not Voting 18 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 313 Related bill: H R 9497 |
Question:
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Result: Passed Yea 415 · Nay 9 · Present 0 · Not Voting 9 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 312 Related bill: H R 9340 |
Question:
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Result: Passed Yea 417 · Nay 3 · Present 0 · Not Voting 12 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 311 Related bill: H J RES 213 |
Question:
On Passage Result: Passed Yea 214 · Nay 208 · Present 0 · Not Voting 11 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 310 Related bill: H R 10326 |
Question:
On Passage Result: Passed Yea 217 · Nay 207 · Present 0 · Not Voting 9 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 309 Related bill: H R 9576 |
Question:
On Passage Result: Passed Yea 352 · Nay 72 · Present 0 · Not Voting 9 |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
House Roll Call 308 Related bill: H R 5334 |
Question:
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments Result: Passed Yea 262 · Nay 159 · Present 0 · Not Voting 12 |
Other actions
| Bill | Title | Status / Last action |
|---|---|---|
| HR 5345 | Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act |
Message on Senate action sent to the House. Last action: Sep 18, 2026 |
| HR 5631 | Geothermal Energy Advancement Act |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 663. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 2887 | A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Route 66 National Historic Trail, and for other purposes. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 644. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 2753 | Urban Canal Modernization Act |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 2754 | A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the City of Ouray, Colorado, certain land managed by the Forest Service, together with a reservoir. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 1413 | A bill to authorize additional funding for the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 2933 | A bill to redesignate a playground in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in the State of West Virginia as the "Hearts of Gold Playground: In Honor of West Virginia Children and Families Impacted by Childhood Cancer". |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 645. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10497 | To require explicit Congressional approval for troops or armed persons at polling places for the only exception in the United States Code, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10508 | To strengthen services provided in rural areas, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerc Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 5254 | Gateway Partnership Act |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 662. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10507 | To require a report on expanding the scope of jurisdiction under the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in cases where a terrorist attack resulted in injury but no death. |
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10485 | To direct the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to have a review conducted of the occupational health and safety conditions of facilities associated with the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10484 | To require the Secretary of Defense to issue Department of Defense-wide guidance for identifying certain artificial intelligence products and excluding and removing those products from systems and devices of the Department, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10504 | To amend the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to limit adverse security clearance and suitability determinations based on past marihuana use, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10501 | To amend the Communist Control Act of 1954 to provide that the Democratic Socialists of America shall be treated like the Communist Party of the United States of America, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10509 | To suspend the Presidential Proclamation relating to expanding foreign beef imports and establish a Beef Import and Domestic Supply Advisory Board to increase the domestic supply of beef and lower costs for consumers over the long term, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HRES 1558 |
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
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| HR 10480 | To amend chapter 57 of title 10, United States Code, to provide for recipients of the Medal of Honor to receive identification allowing unaccompanied access to military installations, to establish a Department of Defense Medal of Honor Liaison, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HRES 1565 |
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
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| HR 10492 | To authorize the Federal Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Program, a comprehensive initiative to improve the health of Federal wildland firefighters, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, an Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10495 | To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish enhanced penalties for certain frauds, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10500 | To amend the Natural Gas Act with respect to the judicial review of an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HRES 1562 |
Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
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| S 1257 | A bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other purposes. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10506 | To confer in the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to use civil investigative demands for enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10494 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide American tariff rebates, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10482 | To require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to establish a dashboard for military construction projects for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation facilities, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 3872 | To amend the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands to make that Act applicable to hardrock minerals. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 669. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 4040 | A bill to amend Public Law 89-108 to modify the authorization of appropriations for State and Tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, and for other purposes. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 655. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10503 | To establish a Federal grant program to reimburse certain States for the costs incurred and damage caused by widespread deployment of Federal immigration officials, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 8193 | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building". |
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governm Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10491 | To direct the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study on the effects of 750-kilovolt or greater transmission lines, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 4041 | A bill to reauthorize the Cooperative Watershed Management Program, and for other purposes. |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 656. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10488 | To restore and strengthen the obligation of the Environmental Protection Agency to protect human health and the environment, to halt unlawful deregulatory actions, to require enforcement of the Clean Air Act, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportatio Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10502 | To direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a report on the use of artificial intelligence systems to acquire, analyze, query, disseminate, or otherwise access information under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. |
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Perman Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10477 | To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to exclude the audits of privately held, non-carrying brokers and dealers that are in good standing from certain requirements under title I of that Act, and for other purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| S 1321 | Moab UMTRA Project Transition Act of 2025 |
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10481 | To amend title 10, United States Code, to designate the National Guard Relief Foundation as a military welfare society for certain purposes. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HR 10483 | To direct the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense, Policy and Programs to seek to enter into an agreement with a University Affiliated Research Center affiliated with United States Strategic Command to conduct an independent scientific assessment with respect to bone marrow radiation shielding for nuclear survivability. |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
| HRES 1566 |
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. Last action: Sep 17, 2026 |
Based on bills that moved in the last seven days, these subjects appeared most often:
Government Operations and Politics (64) Congressional oversight (55) Government buildings, facilities, and property (51) Postal service (50) Public Lands and Natural Resources (50) Congressional tributes (47) Government information and archives (38) Government studies and investigations (28) Energy (24) Environmental assessment, monitoring, research (22)
Counts reflect distinct bills with actions this week that were tagged with each subject.
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