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S. 872119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) · 5 active : 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedJun 10, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govStop Secret Spending Act of 2025
This bill expands a requirement for federal agencies to report expenditures on the USAspending.gov website to include
other transaction agreement
expenditures. (Other transaction agreements, or OTAs, are contractual instruments other than standard procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements; they are exempt from many federal procurement laws and regulations).
Under current law, federal agencies must report expenditures on federal awards to USAspending.gov with the term
federal award
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defined as federal grants, loans, cooperative agreements, contracts, and certain other types of expenditures. This bill expands the definition of federal award to include expenditures under OTAs, and therefore such expenditures must be included on the USAspending.gov website.
The Department of the Treasury must ensure that data relating to OTAs are automatically transmitted to the website and a centralized view of this data is available on the website. Treasury must also annually post on the USAspending.gov website a report that includes (1) the total amount of federal spending on federal awards for which data has not been posted on the website, and (2) the reason why such spending data was not posted.
For 10 years after enactment, the Office of Inspector General of specified federal agencies must periodically submit to Congress and make publicly available a report assessing the agency's spending data and use of data standards.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · SenateHearings by (full committee)
Subjects
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Congressional oversight
- Government information and archives
- Internet, web applications, social media
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 26Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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John FettermanDemocrat · Pennsylvania · Lean R+1Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- Bernie Moreno (R-OH)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
