119th Not-Congress — 1st Session of Futility
119th Congress — Currently Active
Real bills sitting in committee right now, ranked by how absurd they are
50 bills · All links go to official Congress.gov pages
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Authorizes negotiations to purchase Greenland from Denmark and rename it "Red, White, and Blueland."
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Authorizes the President to negotiate with Denmark to acquire Greenland.
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Authorizes the President to negotiate the repurchase of the Panama Canal from Panama.
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Renames the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" on all federal maps and documents.
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Abolishes the IRS and replaces the entire federal tax code with a 23% national sales tax. Introduced every Congress since 1999.
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Abolishes the Federal Reserve System and repeals the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
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Creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and directs the Treasury to acquire 1 million Bitcoin over 5 years.
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Authorizes property owners to shoot down drones over their property with shotguns.
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Abolishes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives entirely.
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A second bill to abolish the ATF, introduced in the same Congress as H.R. 129.
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One-sentence bill: "The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2026."
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Abolishes the Transportation Security Administration.
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Enacts executive order ending DEI programs in the federal government. The acronym reversal is the point.
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Codifies Executive Order preventing "woke AI" in federal government systems.
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Codifies the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order into permanent law.
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Terminates U.S. membership in the United Nations and all affiliated bodies. Introduced periodically since 1997.
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Implements a strategy to move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States.
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Limits birthright citizenship to children of citizens, permanent residents, or active military — challenging the 14th Amendment.
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Repeals the TikTok ban that was signed into law in 2024, just months after Congress banned it.
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Retroactively expunges the December 2019 impeachment of President Trump from the Congressional Record.
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Retroactively expunges the January 2021 impeachment of President Trump from the Congressional Record.
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Prohibits student loan forgiveness for individuals designated as terrorists — solving a problem that does not exist.
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Abolishes the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Prohibits individuals with gender dysphoria from serving in the Armed Forces.
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Withdraws the United States from the World Health Organization.
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Establishes a 5% fee on foreign remittances to fund border wall construction.
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Appropriates $25 billion for border wall construction, funded by restricting tax credits.
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"Allowing Military Exemptions, Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots Act" — a tortured backronym about vaccine mandates.
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Enhances criminal penalties for flag burning despite multiple Supreme Court rulings protecting it as free speech.
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Nullifies COVID-19 vaccine mandate executive orders — which already expired years ago.
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Creates a Southern Border Wall Construction Fund. Senate Bill number 42 — the answer to everything, apparently.
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Terminates the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility across the federal government.
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Prohibits funding for State Department's Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice.
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Requires SEC to amend rules relating to ESG shareholder proposals.
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Prohibits critical race theory and DEI at Department of Defense schools.
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Prohibits federal funding for colleges with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Prohibits federal funds for diversity programs in the Armed Forces.
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"Directing Resources for Officers Navigating Emergencies" — another tortured acronym for law enforcement drone policy.
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Constitutional amendment limiting House to 6 terms and Senate to 2. Introduced every Congress; never passes because members won't limit themselves.
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Constitutional amendment to prohibit flag desecration. Introduced repeatedly since the 1990s despite Supreme Court rulings.
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Prohibits flying any flag except the U.S. flag at federal buildings.
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Senate resolution congratulating a semi-professional soccer team on winning the USL Two championship.
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Temporary moratorium preempting all state AI laws to create uniform federal regulation.
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Establishes 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices with regular appointments every two years.
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Prohibits federal funds to carry out the executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Named after a Bruce Springsteen song.
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Makes daylight saving time permanent. Senate passed a version unanimously in 2022 but the House never voted on it.
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Allows states to observe year-round daylight saving time — a different approach to the same decades-old problem.
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Designates September 19, 2025 as "National Concussion Awareness Day." The resolution number (420) is an unintentional internet culture crossover.
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Makes student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy — a reasonable idea stuck in committee purgatory since the 1970s.
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Posthumously awards Congressional Gold Medal to Muhammad Ali — who already received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Business as Usual
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Even Congress can't be absurd in every direction at once. Almost, though.