In the Senate, there's a new rule that says when deciding if someone in the Foreign Service should get a promotion, they must check any old reports about how well that person has been doing their job if they haven't done great in the last five years. This helps make sure everyone is being judged fairly and clearly.

Congress wants to change a rule about checking how much certain properties are worth by looking at the highest value from past and present times. This change might make it tricky because there's no clear way to decide what the highest value is, and it gives one person a lot of power to decide.