All Roll Calls
Yes: 372 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Senator Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Became Law
Renames the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Anahuac, Texas as the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge to honor Jocelyn Nungaray. The law clarifies that any federal law, map, regulation, document, or other record that refers to the refuge's former name will be treated as a reference to the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge.
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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
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.
S3366 — Back the Blue Act of 2025
Strengthens federal criminal penalties and legal protections for law enforcement, judges, and other public safety officers. This bill would create new federal crimes for killing or attempting to kill those officials, add a flight-to-avoid-prosecution offense, expand qualified officers' carry and self-defense rights in some federal facilities and school zones, and narrow some civil and habeas remedies.
S3496 — United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act
combat illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere. This bill would require the Secretary of State to develop a multi-year Strategy to combat illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere and coordinate law enforcement, finance, and private partners. It pairs mining formalization and environmental protections with anti-money-laundering and sanctions tools. - Communities and the environment: Aims to deter mining in protected areas and reduce mercury and cyanide contamination, deforestation, water and soil harm, and dust-related health impacts. - Artisanal miners and local economies: Promotes formalization through licensing, reduced compliance costs, training, technical help, access to financing, mercury-free refining technologies, and measures to help miners disentangle from violent illicit actors. - Financial system, governments, and enforcement: Directs steps to block foreign actors tied to illicit gold from U.S. markets and the financial system. It adds precious-metals checks to beneficial-ownership reviews and calls for coordinated financial investigations, sanctions capacity building, and international cooperation focused on Venezuela and regional partners.
S3639 — SAT Streamlining Act
This bill would create a strict, deadline-driven licensing system to speed review of satellite and earth-station permits. It pairs faster processing rules with new interagency coordination and a national-security review path to try to clear regulatory bottlenecks while protecting sensitive concerns.
S117 — 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.
S706 — 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.
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