Congressional Record — September 23, 2025

Overview of the day

The House met briefly, adjourning after three minutes, and introduced 22 public bills and 9 resolutions. The Senate is scheduled to meet in a pro forma session on Thursday, September 25.

Summary of the House proceedings

(Public Law 118-225) H.R. 2483 was signed by the Speaker, providing reauthorization for certain programs related to opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery.
H.R. 3632 was reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce to adjust requirements for orders, rules, and regulations regarding adequate service and notice of planned retirements for electric generating units.
H.R. 5541 was introduced to permanently authorize the Every Kid Outdoors program.
H.R. 5542 was introduced to provide for automatic continuous appropriations.
H.R. 5543 was introduced to require a report on emerging threats to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
H.R. 5544 was introduced to prohibit the transportation, sale, and purchase of donkeys or donkey hides for producing ejiao.
H.R. 5545 was introduced to require higher education institutions to adopt policies for providing advisers for certain students.
H.R. 5546 was introduced to require higher education institutions to track and record additional hate crime information.
H.R. 5547 was introduced to provide additional activities, resources, and data collection for English learners.
H.R. 5548 was introduced to prohibit assistance to countries that fail to extradite individuals convicted of fraud against the United States.
H.R. 5549 was introduced to provide for more efficient hearings on nuclear facility construction applications.
H.R. 5550 was introduced to require broadband providers to state aggregate prices and prohibit certain fees.
H.R. 5551 was introduced to require a one-time update of base acres for covered commodities.
H.R. 5552 was introduced to provide for automatic continuing appropriations.
H.R. 5553 was introduced to make area career and technical education schools eligible for mental health and substance use disorder service grants.
H.R. 5554 was introduced to provide Medicare coverage for certain fall prevention items.
H.R. 5555 was introduced to authorize a study on designating land in California as the Monterey Bay National Heritage Area.
H.R. 5556 was introduced to require air carriers to transfer funds to ticket agents for cancelled or changed flights.
H.R. 5557 was introduced to revise and extend projects relating to children and provide school-based mental health programs.
H.R. 5558 was introduced to increase the exclusion limitation for dependent care assistance programs.
H.R. 5559 was introduced to exclude certain investments in disadvantaged small business concerns from leverage limit calculations.
H.R. 5560 was introduced to incentivize States to eliminate statutes of limitations for child abuse cases.
H.R. 5561 was introduced to exclude strike benefits from gross income.
H.R. 5562 was introduced to provide grants to study insects and pests impacting tropical plants.
H. Con. Res. 51 was introduced to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities.
H. Res. 757 was introduced to designate September 22, 2025, as National Hispanic Nurses Day.
H. Res. 758 was introduced to recognize the legacy of Peter Westbrook in fencing.
H. Res. 759 was introduced to recognize September 2025 as National Children's Emotional Wellness Month.
H. Res. 760 was introduced to designate the week of September 22 through September 26, 2025, as National Hazing Awareness Week.
H. Res. 761 was introduced to designate September 23, 2025, as national Bruce Springsteen Day.
H. Res. 762 was introduced to designate September 23, 2025, as Mary Church Terrell Day.
H. Res. 763 was introduced to designate September 2025 as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
H. Res. 764 was introduced to recognize disparities in Black youth mental health access and treatment.

Summary of Senate proceedings

There was no Senate activity on this date.