## Public Briefing: Legislative Actions from CREC-2026-07-28.pdf
### S. 380
**Full Summary Description:**
> to improve obstetric emergency care, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 494
**Full Summary Description:**
> to establish a national plan to coordinate research on epilepsy, with an amendment in the na- ture of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 1874
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain nursing workforce development programs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2658
**Full Summary Description:**
> to require sponsors of drug applications and holders of approved applications to provide cer- tain submissions and communications to the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Pat- ent and Trademark Office, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8. Cl. 3]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes*
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### S. 4110
**Full Summary Description:**
> to revise and extend health workforce programs under title VII of the Public Health Serv- ice Act, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- stitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 4974
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to food safety, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific
### S. 5026
**Full Summary Description:**
> to require warning labels on sugar-sweet- ened foods and beverages, foods and beverages con- taining high-intensity sweeteners, ultra-processed foods, and foods high in nutrients of concern, such as added sugar, saturated fat, or sodium, to restrict junk food advertising to children, with an amend- ment in the nature of a substitute.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### H.R. 5334
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Internal Revenue Code of
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8. Cl. 1]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States*
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### H.R. 1729
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Manage- ment, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 764
**Full Summary Description:**
> to provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, recreation manage- ment areas, and conservation areas in the State of Colo- rado,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 791
**Full Summary Description:**
> to establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the State of Maryland as an af- filiated area of the National Park System,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article III. Sec. 1]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.*
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### S. 888
**Full Summary Description:**
> to des- ignate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Or- egon as wilderness and national recreation areas, to with- draw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 9. Cl. 7]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.*
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### S. 945
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Smith River National Recreation Area Act to include certain additions to the Smith River National Recreation Area, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain wild rivers in the State of Or- egon,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 1005
**Full Summary Description:**
> to provide for conservation and economic development in the State of Nevada,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 1088
**Full Summary Description:**
> to provide that the memorial to commemorate the sacrifice and serv- ice of the women who worked on the home front to sup- port the efforts of the United States military during World War II may be located on the National Mall, S. 1195, to promote conservation, improve public land man- agement, and provide for sensible development in Per- shing County, Nevada,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 1257
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Infrastruc- ture Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 1341
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add certain land to the Sarvis Creek Wilderness,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 1476
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to pro- vide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 1737
**Full Summary Description:**
> to designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic Na- tional Forest in the State of Washington, and to des- ignate certain rivers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers, S. 1777, to amend the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to expand the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park, to redesignate the Cottonwood Visitor Center at Joshua Tree National Park as the ‘‘Dianne Feinstein Vis- itor Center’’,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 1870
**Full Summary Description:**
> to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2498
**Full Summary Description:**
> to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend certain leases within units of the National Park System without opening the lease to bidding,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### H.R. 5254
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to author- ize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agree- ment with the Gateway Arch Park Foundation to host private events in Gateway Arch National Park buildings,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2801
**Full Summary Description:**
> to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to con- duct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating the Canterbury Shaker Village National Her- itage Area,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2887
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Route 66 National Historic Trail,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2933
**Full Summary Description:**
> 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 Child- hood Cancer’’,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 2968
**Full Summary Description:**
> to ensure access to certain public land,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 3194
**Full Summary Description:**
> to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain land in California as the Monterey Bay National Heritage Area,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### H.R. 6365
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an emergency exit on certain National Park Service land in the State of Virginia,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 3409
**Full Summary Description:**
> to re- affirm that the Bureau of Reclamation retains exclusive ownership, operational control, and financial responsi- bility for the Lower Yellowstone Fish Bypass Channel, ensuring long-term conservation of the endangered pallid sturgeon and other native aquatic species in the Yellow- stone River while protecting the Lower Yellowstone Irri- gation Project and District from undue financial and operational burdens,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### H.R. 7250
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to re- authorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### H.R. 6380
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to establish the Chiricahua National Park in the State of Arizona as a unit of the National Park System,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 3720
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 3738
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Infrastructure Invest- ment and Jobs Act to reauthorize the large-scale water re- cycling and reuse program, to establish a Water Convey- ance Improvement Program,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### H.R. 5729
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to authorize direct emergency acquisition flexibilities for the National Park Service for the purpose of retaining, vetting, approving, and expediting contractor approval for the clearing, rebuilding, maintenance, and improvement of the Grand Canyon grounds that have been impacted by the Dragon Bravo Fire,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 4041
**Full Summary Description:**
> to reauthorize the Cooperative Watershed Management Program,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 4238
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Manage- ment, and Recreation Act to designate as a component of the National Heritage Area System the Endless Moun- tains National Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 4399
**Full Summary Description:**
> to provide for certain conveyances under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *General Legislative Authority (Requires scrutiny for specific constitutional delegation of power).*
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### S. 4410
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for the payment of bonus payments of certain coal leases issued under that Act,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 4538
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating Washington’s Trail-1753 as a national historic trail,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### H.R. 7831
**Full Summary Description:**
> bills to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during which the Secretary of the Interior is re- quired to collect a fee for each new application for a per- mit to drill,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### H.R. 249
**Full Summary Description:**
> to redesignate certain facilities at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in honor of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### H.R. 677
**Full Summary Description:**
> to establish a process to expedite the review of appeals of certain deci-
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### H.R. 5631
**Full Summary Description:**
> to appoint a Geothermal Ombudsman and establish a Geothermal Permitting Task Force from within the Bu- reau of Land Management, 9:30 a.m., SD–366. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Sub- committee on Employment and Workplace Safety, to hold hearings to examine the impact of AI on the work- place, 2 p.m., SD–430. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the testimony of Anthony Fauci, 8:30 a.m., SD–342. Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article IV. Sec. 3. Cl. 2]]
- **Constitutional Text for Comparison:** *The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.*
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### S. 3573
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the completion of the Regional Water System,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 3617
**Full Summary Description:**
> to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Yavapai-Apache Nation in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 4368
**Full Summary Description:**
> to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians,
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 4417
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act to make technical corrections, and
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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### S. 4890
**Full Summary Description:**
> to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to establish sub- accounts in the Indian Water Rights Settlement Comple- tion Fund, 2:30 p.m., SD–628. Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud, 3:45 p.m., SD–562.
- **Constitutional Authority:** [[Article I. Sec. 8]]
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