All Roll Calls
Yes: 49 • No: 47
Sponsored By: Senator Lisa Murkowski
In Committee
Nullifies the Bureau of Land Management's Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision. This joint resolution would disapprove that BLM rule and provide that the rule shall have no force or effect.
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Lisa Murkowski
AK • R
Dan Sullivan
AK • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
All Roll Calls
Yes: 49 • No: 47
senate vote • 12/3/2025
On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 91
Yes: 49 • No: 47
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S524 — Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
Coast Guard capacity is the focus: the bill funds operations, raises staffing targets, and rewrites acquisition rules to modernize ships, aircraft, and maintenance. It pairs specific dollar authorizations with new buying rules and reporting on icebreakers and polar cutters. - Coast Guard personnel and readiness gain explicit targets. Total end strength is raised from 2,500 to 3,000 and aircraft crew levels from 165 to 200, with higher training capacity metrics. - Shipbuilders and the Coast Guard Yard face new procurement rules and reporting. The bill creates Service Life Extension Programs, requires life‑cycle cost estimates, reclassifies major projects, and limits floating drydocks to U.S. construction and defined acquisition paths. The minor construction threshold rises to $2 million. - Great Lakes and Arctic operations get clearer plans and oversight. The Commandant must deliver a Great Lakes icebreaker design and run a five‑season pilot to target keeping key waterways open 95% of the time. A Polar Security Cutter acquisition report is due within 120 days and regular briefings follow. Authorizes roughly $11.3 billion for FY2025 and $11.9 billion for FY2026 for the Coast Guard primary account, plus other specified accounts and retiree costs, representing near‑term federal outlays for operations and acquisitions.
S1541 — SHIPS for America Act of 2025
Expand U.S. shipbuilding and maritime capacity for national and economic security. The SHIPS for America Act of 2025 would create a broad statutory framework to grow U.S.-flag fleets, boost domestic shipbuilding and repair, modernize mariner credentials and training, and fund ports, cable repair, and maritime innovation. - Mariners and students would get credential modernization, new scholarships and loan-forgiveness eligibility, and major academy support including about $125.0 million per year for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy FY2026–FY2035. - U.S. shipyards and builders would gain new financing tools and incentives including a Title XI revolving loan start of $100.0 million and $100.0 million per year for small shipyard assistance FY2026–FY2035. - Commercial shipping, ports, and national security would be reshaped by stronger cargo-preference rules, tariff and tonnage-tax penalties for foreign-of-concern shipyards, and a Strategic Commercial Fleet with targets of at least 10 vessels in year three and 20 vessels per year thereafter. If enacted, it would authorize a Maritime Security Trust Fund capped at $20.0 billion and multiple annual appropriations and program payments through FY2035, increasing federal spending obligations over the next decade.
S2431 — Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
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S2903 — Safe Step Act
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S2012 — Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act of 2025
Reauthorizes and expands the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to fund trauma‑informed care and trafficking prevention for runaway and homeless young people. It creates new grant streams, raises service standards, and updates data and outreach tools to reach youth on the street and online. - Youth and families: Funds local centers and transitional living programs that offer safe shelter, counseling, trafficking victim services, and family engagement. Grants run for 5 years and programs may serve youth up to age 26. - Service providers and operations: Sets trauma‑informed, culturally and linguistically appropriate standards. Requires confidentiality protections, expanded street and online outreach, training, interagency coordination, and reporting on trafficking indicators. - Funding and administration: Authorizes $200.0 million for FY2026 for title activities and requires the Secretary to set per‑application grant ranges and prioritization rules tied to annual appropriations. Authorizes new federal funding, including $200.0 million for FY2026 and additional program authorizations, which would increase federal spending if appropriated.
S688 — Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
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