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TAX · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Common Cents Act of 2025 (H.R. 3074/S. 1525) is bipartisan U.S. legislation introduced in April 2025 to stop minting pennies, mandate rounding cash transactions to the nearest nickel, and keep pennies as legal tender while removing them from general circulation, aiming to save taxpayer money and modernize currency, with sponsors including Reps. McClain/Garcia and Senators Lummis/Gillibrand

Literal federal measure citations: H.R. 3074, S. 1525

LBR · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Consideration of H.R.2826 - Save Local Business Act that would provide that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee under federal labor law only if such person directly, actually, and immediately (and not in a limited and routine manner) exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment. Such control may by demonstrated by hiring and discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, and administering employee discipline.

Literal federal measure citations: H.R.2826

TRD · Trade (domestic/foreign)

The USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) is a modern trade pact that replaced NAFTA, effective July 1, 2020, aiming to boost North American manufacturing, support workers and farmers, and create fairer, more balanced trade by updating rules for the digital economy, agriculture, labor, and intellectual property, while strengthening supply chains for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Individual tariffs