All Roll Calls
Yes: 372 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Senator Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Became Law
Renames the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas as the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge. The law requires federal laws, maps, regulations, and records to use the new name. It records Congress's findings that 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was murdered in Houston and that she loved animals, making the refuge a fitting place to honor her memory.
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Cornyn, John [R-TX]
TX • R
Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
TX • R
Sponsored 5/5/2025
All Roll Calls
Yes: 372 • No: 0
house vote • 7/14/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 372 • No: 0
119-s-1071, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Authorizes FY2026 defense funding and wide-ranging national security reforms. This law funds military operations, reshapes acquisition, and sets specific nuclear and industrial priorities across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). - Military families and households: Improves housing oversight, expands childcare pilots and parental leave, and authorizes about $17.5 billion for military construction to support family housing and base projects. - Service members and personnel: Sets FY2026 end strengths and funds pay and benefits with a military personnel authorization around $193.2 billion, while strengthening medical access, mental‑health support, and sexual‑assault forensic care. - Defense industrial base and nuclear stockpile: Rewrites procurement toward "best value," enables multiyear buys and supply‑chain limits on foreign components, and requires DOE/NNSA war‑reserve pit production targets of at least 30 pits in 2026 and 80 by 2030.
119-s-524, Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
Coast Guard modernization and readiness is the bill's central aim. It would fund new ships and systems, raise personnel and training authorities, and pair acquisition changes with broad reforms for member support and accountability. - Coast Guard members and families would get expanded "Family leave," a maternity uniform allowance, new housing and Alaska travel flexibilities, command sponsorship for Unalaska dependents, and added behavioral health support including at least 5 new specialists and an Embedded Behavioral Health Technician pilot. - Operations and assets would get new funding authority for FY2025–FY2026, higher authorized end‑strengths in several categories (to about 3,000 in some cases), a Service Life Extension Program, required life‑cycle cost estimates, and reporting on Polar Security Cutter and Great Lakes icebreaking needs. - Oversight, safety, and victim care would be strengthened with Safe‑to‑Report rules, long evidence‑retention standards including 50‑year retention for sexual assault records, expedited transfer and temporary separation options for victims, and new Academy oversight and annual covered‑misconduct reporting.
119-s-3923, Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026
Modernize and expand NOAA's weather, water, and ocean observing, modeling, and public-warning systems to deliver faster, more accurate forecasts and stronger decision tools for hazards from tornadoes to tsunamis, wildfires, and harmful algal blooms. It creates new programs, sets multiyear funding through FY2030, and requires reporting, interagency coordination, and workforce protections. - Families and coastal communities get stronger warnings and planning tools through updated tsunami forecasting, coastal flood and storm surge programs, and a modernized NOAA Weather Radio. Key authorizations include $30 million per year for tsunami activities and $25 million per year for NOAA Weather Radio operations plus $100 million for modernization in FY2026. - Farmers, water managers, and drought‑vulnerable areas gain better subseasonal‑to‑seasonal forecasts, expanded streamgages, and a Next Generation Water Observing System to improve water supply and reservoir planning. The bill authorizes $40 million per year for S2S pilots and $30 million for initial water observing basins in FY2026. - Emergency responders and the National Weather Service workforce receive a coordinated Fire Weather Services Program, an Incident Meteorologist Service, hiring and relocation protections, and rising fire‑weather funding that grows from $15 million in FY2026 to $50 million in FY2030. Authorizes multiple new and expanded funding lines across NOAA programs, including a $311 million FY2026 AI/modeling appropriation, increasing federal spending authority through FY2030.
119-s-117, AMERICANS Act
Restores honorable status and remedies for service members discharged over COVID-19 vaccine refusal. It would bar the Department of Defense (DOD) from issuing a new COVID-19 vaccine mandate to replace the 2021 policy unless Congress expressly authorizes one, and it would create processes for exemptions, retention, and compensation remedies for affected members. - Members discharged or subject to adverse action for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine would be able to choose remedies such as adjustment to an honorable discharge, reinstatement to their highest prior grade with back pay, expungement of adverse records, and crediting separation time toward retirement pay. - The DOD would be required to try to retain unvaccinated members and give them equal professional development, promotion, and leadership opportunities, limit vaccine-based deployment decisions to cases where foreign law requires vaccination or the member is needed for a role, and set up exemption processes for natural immunity, medical risk, or sincere religious beliefs. - Members separated for vaccine refusal would not have to repay bonuses and would be reimbursed for any repayments already made, and the bill's protections would apply to all service members regardless of whether they sought an accommodation.
119-s-706, American Victims of Terrorism Compensation Act
Expanded, time‑bound funding for U.S. victims of state‑sponsored terrorism. This bill would clarify and widen the sources and timing of money in the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, set firm deadlines for fifth‑round and supplemental payments, create annual pro rata payments starting in 2026, and add stricter reporting and oversight rules. - Claimants (victims): Would require fifth‑round payments to be distributed by March 14, 2025 and would begin annual pro rata payments in 2026 so eligible victims get more predictable, regular distributions. - Funding mechanics: Would direct specific forfeiture and penalty deposits into the Fund, including a $1.5 billion deposit to the Crime Victims Fund, and would authorize annual transfers equal to 50% of excess unobligated balances from DOJ and Treasury forfeiture funds. - Administration and oversight: Would limit Special Master use of Department of Justice personnel to 10 full‑time equivalents with their costs paid from the Fund, require an annual Attorney General report posted by March 1, and mandate a GAO report by April 1, 2025 plus triennial evaluations thereafter.
119-s-3752, SAVE America Act
Would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and a tangible photo ID to register and vote in federal elections. It would create a nationwide verification system using DHS SAVE, Social Security Administration checks, and state DMV and other databases and would expand removal rules, private lawsuits, and criminal penalties for registration violations. - Voters and registrants: People seeking to register for federal office would need to present listed documents such as a U.S. passport, REAL ID showing citizenship, naturalization certificate, or certified birth records. Those without documents could use a uniform affidavit under penalty of perjury as an alternative. - State and election agencies: Motor vehicle agencies and voter registration offices would have to collect and verify documentary proof and regularly cross-check SAVE, SSA, and state records. Federal departments would be required to provide verification data on request and, where practicable, within 24 hours to support verification. - Voting process and enforcement: In-person voters would need a tangible photo ID and absentee voters would include an ID copy with requests and ballots. The bill would add a mechanism to remove registrants verified as noncitizens and broaden private rights of action and criminal penalties for assisting improper registration.
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Would block federal eminent domain for most agricultural land when a feasible alternative exists, defines covered land, and excludes tiny low‑income parcels.
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The Federal Communications Commission — an independent regulatory agency created by the Communications Act of 1934 47 U.S.C. § 151 and substantially restructured by the Telecommunications Act of 1996
The U.S. Department of Labor is revising its implementing regulations for Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Section 503). The revisions align the regulations with applicable law and recent executive orders, including Executive Order 14173, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," and Executive Order 14219, "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's `Department of Government Efficiency' Deregulatory Initiative."
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