119th Congress Government Operations and Politics
S. 872: Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
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- Introduced (completed)
- Passed Senate (completed)
- Passed House (not reached)
- To the President (not reached)
- Became law (not reached)
Summary
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.
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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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- James Lankford R-OKOriginal
- Bernie Moreno R-OHOriginal
- Gary Peters D-MIOriginal
- Ashley Moody R-FL
- Margaret Hassan D-NH
Who scored on this bill
- 1Joni Ernst SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reported, passed Senate4 events+56
- 2Margaret HassanCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
- 2James LankfordCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
- 2Ashley MoodyCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
- 2Bernie MorenoCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
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History
- Passed the Senate by unanimous consent.
- Introduced in the Senate by Joni Ernst.
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- Received in the House.
- Held at the desk.
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.
- Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2721-2723; text: CR S2722-2723)
- Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
- Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
- Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.