Floor Action: The Senate is in session. The House is in recess until the week of September 2.
Mark-Ups:
Appropriations- On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee will mark up H.R. 4016, the FY2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. The legislation includes funding for the Defense Health Program and military personnel programs, among others.
Also on Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up the FY2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies spending bill (as-yet-unnumbered).
Abortion
S. 2377—Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (07/22/2025)—A bill to ensure affordable abortion coverage and care for every person, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4611—Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)/ Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Natural Resources; Armed Services; Veterans’ Affairs; Judiciary; Oversight and Government Reform; Foreign Affairs (07/22/2025)—A bill to ensure affordable abortion coverage and care for every person, and for other purposes.
Civil Rights
H.R. 4554—Rep. Gregory Steube (R-FL)/Education and Workforce (07/21/2025)—A bill to prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of expression that describes, asserts, or reinforces the binary or biological nature of sex.
Employment
S. 2451—Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (07/24/2025)—A bill to ensure that paraprofessionals and education support staff are paid a living wage.
H.R. 4763—Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI)/Education and Workforce; House Administration; Oversight and Government Reform; Judiciary; Transportation and Infrastructure (07/25/2025)—A bill to require employers to provide paid annual leave to employees, and for other purposes.
Family Support
H.R. 4569—Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)/Energy and Commerce (07/21/2025)—A bill to require no-cost coverage of human milk fortifier.
S. 2418—Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)/Finance (07/23/2025)—A bill to provide leave for the spontaneous loss of an unborn child, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4742—Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)/Education and Workforce (07/23/2025)—A bill to allow certain participants in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children to elect to be issued a variety of types of milk, including whole milk, and for other purposes.
Health
H.R. 4618—Rep. Gregory Steube (R-FL)/Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Education and Workforce (07/22/2025)—A bill to establish a Federal tort against pediatric gender clinics and other entities pushing gender-transition procedures that cause bodily injury to children or harm the mental health of children.
H. Res. 613—Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)/Education and Workforce (07/25/2025)—A resolution expressing support for July to be designated as “Disability Pride Month”.
H.R. 4773—Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE)/Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce (07/25/2025)—A bill to establish a SNF-at-home program under the Medicare program.
Human Trafficking
H.R. 4732—Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ)/Foreign Affairs (07/23/2025)—A bill to expand the definition of “severe forms of trafficking in persons” to include the recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer, or receipt of orphaned, abandoned, or minors living in public or private residential facilities, and for other purposes.
Immigration
H.R. 4778—Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)/Judiciary (07/25/2025)—A bill for the relief of Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez.
Judiciary
H.R. 4664—Rep. Sylvia Garcia (DTX)/Judiciary (07/23/2025)—A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant and postpartum women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment, and for other purposes.
Reproductive Health
S. 2408—Sen. Cory Booker/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (07/23/2025)—A bill to require health insurance plans to provide coverage for fertility treatment, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4648—Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)/ Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Education and Workforce; Oversight and Government Reform; Armed Services; Veterans’ Affairs (07/23/2025)—A bill to require health insurance plans to provide coverage for fertility treatment, and for other purposes.
H. Res. 611—Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL)/Energy and Commerce (07/25/2025)—A resolution expressing the importance of accurate information for medical professionals treating pregnant women and their unborn children in the emergency department, and for informing the general public, and for other purposes.
Tax Policy
H.R. 4639—Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH)/Ways and Means (07/23/2025)—A bill to provide an income tax credit for the costs of infertility treatments.
Violence Against Women
H.R. 4599—Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA)/Financial Services (07/22/2025)—A bill to require public companies to provide sexual harassment claim disclosures in certain reports, to require public companies to implement mandatory sexual harassment training, and for other purposes.
