Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 3/18/2026
Actions
- 2026-09-03Presented to President.
- 2026-09-03Presented to President.
- 2026-08-10Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2026-08-07Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4547)
- 2026-08-07Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- 2026-07-21Received in the Senate, read twice.
- 2026-07-20Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2026-07-20On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4657-4658)
- 2026-07-20Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4657-4658)
- 2026-07-20DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2069.
- 2026-07-20Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4657-4659)
- 2026-07-20Mr. Burlison moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- 2026-03-18Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.
- 2026-03-18Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-03-11Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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CRS Summary
As of 2025-03-11 (00)
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 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.
Cosponsors (3)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Maggie Goodlander (D-NH)
- Harriet Hageman (R-WY)
Subjects
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Congressional oversight
- Government information and archives
- Internet, web applications, social media
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