3.0.0 872 2026-03-02T21:14:29Z 2026-03-02T21:14:29Z Senate S S 2025-03-05 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/872 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Reported By 2025-11-07T18:41:53Z Markup By 2025-07-30T14:00:18Z Referred To 2025-03-05T21:18:32Z Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 119 2069 HR 2025-03-11 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Identical bill CRS 2025-11-07 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265. Calendars 2025-11-07 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report. Committee 2025-11-07 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee 2025-07-30 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. Committee 2025-03-05 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2025-03-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N P000595 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] Gary Peters D MI 2025-03-05 True L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2025-03-05 True M001242 Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH] Bernie Moreno R OH 2025-03-05 True M001244 Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL] Ashley Moody R FL 2025-07-30 False H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH 2025-12-17 False 2025-11-12T19:34:00Z S. 872, Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61893 As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on November 7, 2025 Government Operations and Politics Budget deficits and national debt 2025-08-07T17:51:42Z Congressional oversight 2025-08-07T17:51:42Z Government information and archives 2025-08-07T17:51:42Z Internet, web applications, social media 2025-08-07T17:51:42Z Government Operations and Politics 2025-05-08T13:49:36Z 00 2025-03-05 Introduced in Senate 2026-03-02T21:14:24Z 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.

]]> Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 Display Title 45 Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 2025-12-18T12:03:18Z Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate 103 Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 2025-11-11T06:53:14Z S Senate Reported to Senate RS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 2025-03-07T16:38:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov, and for other purposes. 2025-03-07T16:33:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Reported to Senate 2025-11-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s872rs/xml/BILLS-119s872rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2025-03-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s872is/xml/BILLS-119s872is.xml 2025-11-07 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.