S 4486
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Requires the President to submit any improvement to the White House Executive Residence costing more than $1 million to two congressional committees for review, and allows the work to proceed once both committee chairs publish a statement in the Congressional Record that they have reviewed it.
Official title: A bill to amend title 3, United States Code, to prescribe a process to authorize certain activities at the Executive Residence at the White House, and for other purposes.
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Senate
Introduced
11-MAY-2026
On the calendar
11-MAY-2026
- Requires the President to describe any proposed Executive Residence project or alteration costing more than $1,000,000 from all funding sources to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
- Requires each submission to include all information the two committee chairs consider necessary, regardless of classification or access controls.
- Allows the President to carry out a reviewed activity once both chairs publish a statement in the Congressional Record that they have received the information and reviewed the activity.
- Requires progress reports to the two chairs by June 1 and December 1 each year on all activities authorized under this process.
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