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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
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Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action 2025-11-12 · Held at the desk. · showing text version Engrossed in Senate of 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z
Sponsor
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] (R-MS)
0 cosponsors
Recent actions
- 2025-11-12 — Received in the House.
- 2025-11-12 — Held at the desk.
- 2025-11-10 — Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2025-10-09 — Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate under the order of 10/9/2025, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 20. Record Vote Number: 570.
- 2025-10-09 — Passed Senate under the order of 10/9/2025, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 20. Record Vote Number: 570.
- 2025-10-09 — Motion by Senator Thune to recommit to Senate Committee on Armed Services with instructions to report back forthwith with the following amendment (SA 3866) withdrawn in Senate.
- 2025-10-09 — Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S7062-7087)
- 2025-10-08 — Considered by Senate.
- 2025-10-06 — Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6943-6944)
- 2025-10-01 — Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6889-6893)
Subjects
- Academic performance and assessments
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Adoption and foster care
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Advisory bodies
- Africa
- Air quality
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Alliances
- Appropriations
- Arab-Israeli relations
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Armed Forces Retirement Home
- Arms control and nonproliferation
- Asia
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Athletes
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Australia
- Aviation and airports
- Belgium
- Blood and blood diseases
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Budget process
- Building construction
- California
- Canada
- Caribbean area
- Chemical and biological weapons
- Child care and development
- Child health
- China
- Civil actions and liability
- Coal
- Coast guard
- Collective security
- Commemorative events and holidays
- Competition and antitrust
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional oversight
- Connecticut
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Crime prevention
- Cuba
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Defense spending
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Detention of persons
- Digital media
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disability and paralysis
- Disability assistance
- District of Columbia
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Educational technology and distance education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Espionage and treason
- Europe
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family planning and birth control
- Family relationships
- Federal officials
- Fiji
- Firearms and explosives
- Fires
- Florida
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign and international corporations
- Foreign labor
- Forests, forestry, trees
- France
- Free trade and trade barriers
- Georgia
- Germany
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Greenland
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Health care quality
- Health personnel
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
- Higher education
- Historic sites and heritage areas
- Housing industry and standards
- Human trafficking
- Idaho
- Illinois
- India
- Indiana
- Industrial policy and productivity
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Inflation and prices
- Infrastructure development
- Intellectual property
- Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
- Intergovernmental relations
- International organizations and cooperation
- International scientific cooperation
- Iowa
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Judges
- Jurisdiction and venue
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Kiribati
- Land transfers
- Latin America
- Lawyers and legal services
- Lease and rental services
- Lebanon
- Licensing and registrations
- Maine
- Manufacturing
- Marine and inland water transportation
- Marshall Islands
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Mental health
- Metals
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Middle East
- Military assistance, sales, and agreements
- Military civil functions
- Military education and training
- Military facilities and property
- Military history
- Military law
- Military medicine
- Military operations and strategy
- Military personnel and dependents
- Military procurement, research, weapons development
- Military readiness
- Minority education
- Missing persons
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Motor vehicles
- National Guard and reserves
- Nauru
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Neurological disorders
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York State
- New Zealand
- North America
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Nuclear power
- Nuclear weapons
- Nutrition and diet
- Oceania
- Ohio
- Oil and gas
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Organized crime
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Pennsylvania
- Performance measurement
- Personnel records
- Philippines
- Poland
- Professional sports
- Protection of officials
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public participation and lobbying
- Public-private cooperation
- Puerto Rico
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Radio spectrum allocation
- Radioactive wastes and releases
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Rhode Island
- Russia
- Samoa
- School administration
- School athletics
- Seafood
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex offenses
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Singapore
- Small business
- Smuggling and trafficking
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- Solid waste and recycling
- Solomon Islands
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- South Korea
- Space flight and exploration
- Spacecraft and satellites
- Spain
- Special education
- Strategic materials and reserves
- Supply chain
- Surgery and anesthesia
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Technology assessment
- Television and film
- Tennessee
- Terrorism
- Texas
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Transportation costs
- Travel and tourism
- Tuvalu
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Utah
- Vanuatu
- Virginia
- Visas and passports
- Wages and earnings
- Washington State
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Worker safety and health
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