{"id":"60a9a71f-cbf8-4162-94a3-49c22445ca24","feedVisibility":"normal","congress":119,"billType":"s","billNumber":2173,"title":"For Sale Act of 2025","displayTitle":"For Sale Act of 2025","abstract":"For Sale Act of 2025 This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to sell the following federal buildings for fair market value at highest and best use: the Department of Agriculture South Building, the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, the Frances Perkins Federal Building, the James V. Forrestal Building, the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, and the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building. Federal agencies currently occupying these buildings must vacate them and relocate to another federal building within 18 months of enactment. GSA must sell the buildings within two years of vacancy. GSA may not sell these buildings to any foreign person, foreign entity, or entity of which a foreign person is a beneficial owner. The sales of these buildings are exempt from certain statutory requirements, including those associated with specified environmental and historic preservation laws.","displaySummary":"<p><strong>YVN Summary</strong></p>\n\n<p>Six well-known federal office buildings in Washington, D.C. — including the Department of Agriculture South Building, the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, and the James V. Forrestal Building — would be sold off under this bill, once the agencies currently housed there relocate elsewhere. The General Services Administration would have up to two years after the buildings are vacated to sell them at fair market value, with most of the proceeds going toward federal deficit reduction. The bill blocks any foreign person, foreign company, or foreign-owned entity from buying the buildings. It also exempts the sales from several standard requirements that normally apply to disposing of federal property, including environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, historic preservation rules, and a law requiring surplus federal buildings to first be offered to homeless-assistance programs. No new buildings may be purchased or leased to replace the ones being sold as part of this consolidation.</p>","status":"COMMITTEE_CONSIDERATION","topics":["ENVIRONMENT","GOVERNMENT_OPERATIONS"],"introducedAt":"2025-06-25T00:00:00+00:00","latestActionAt":"2025-06-25T00:00:00+00:00","congressGovUrl":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2173","accountabilityFlags":{"environmental_concerns":["↓ NEPA environmental review — Waived for the sale of these six federal buildings"],"transparency_accountability":["↓ Homeless-assistance priority review — McKinney-Vento first-look requirement waived for these building sales"]},"tldr":"Sells six major federal office buildings in Washington, D.C. — with proceeds going mostly to deficit reduction and foreign buyers barred.","summaryStandard":null,"flagExplainers":{},"flagValence":{},"needsResummary":false,"displaySummaryHtml":null,"rawStatusText":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.","chamber":"SENATE","policyArea":"Government Operations and Politics","legislativeSubjects":[],"lawStatus":null,"lawNumber":null,"latestActionText":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.","latestTextVersion":"Introduced in Senate","textVersionUsed":null,"dateAdded":"2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00","summarizedAt":"2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00","recordId":"60a9a71f-cbf8-4162-94a3-49c22445ca24","feedIdentityKey":"119/s/2173","websiteBillId":"S-2173","yourvoiceSummary":"Six well-known federal office buildings in Washington, D.C. — including the Department of Agriculture South Building, the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, and the James V. Forrestal Building — would be sold off under this bill, once the agencies currently housed there relocate elsewhere. The General Services Administration would have up to two years after the buildings are vacated to sell them at fair market value, with most of the proceeds going toward federal deficit reduction. The bill blocks any foreign person, foreign company, or foreign-owned entity from buying the buildings. It also exempts the sales from several standard requirements that normally apply to disposing of federal property, including environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, historic preservation rules, and a law requiring surplus federal buildings to first be offered to homeless-assistance programs. No new buildings may be purchased or leased to replace the ones being sold as part of this consolidation.","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T04:12:19.053598+00:00"}