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.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Passed Senate

Senate: passedJun 10, 2026
House: next
President: not yet

8 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Stop 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

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

45Swing 70–100
206Middle 30–70
180Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 26.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 8464 · Jun 10, 2026 · Roll call 580On PassageStopping Fraudulent Payments Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 7887 · Jul 23, 2024 · Roll call 1098On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedACCESS Act
FailedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 7525 · May 6, 2024 · Roll call 896On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassSpecial District Grant Accessibility Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 10326 · Sep 16, 2026 · Roll call 670On PassagePROOF Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Res. 1490 · Sep 1, 2026 · Roll call 649On Agreeing to the ResolutionProviding for the condemnation and denouncement of socialism in all its forms, and for other purposes
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Res. 1335 · Jun 11, 2026 · Roll call 582On Agreeing to the ResolutionCondemning actors seeking to defraud the U.S. Government, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that government-wide fraud and improper payment prevention reforms will meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of the U.S., and that Federal program eligibility should be verified before payment
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8312 · Jun 10, 2026 · Roll call 578On PassageFraud Prevention and Accountability Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
S. 1383 · Feb 11, 2026 · Roll call 429On PassageVeterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.J.Res. 142 · Feb 4, 2026 · Roll call 416On PassageDisapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Con.Res. 58 · Nov 21, 2025 · Roll call 304On Agreeing to the ResolutionDenouncing the horrors of socialism
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Res. 719 · Sep 19, 2025 · Roll call 281On Agreeing to the ResolutionHonoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 3095 · Jul 21, 2025 · Roll call 212On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Cosponsors

5 active

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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.