H.R. 856 · 119th Congress · Government operations and politics
Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Mar 3, 2025
Roll call ↗417
0
Passed the House.
Passed the House on March 3, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedJan 31, 2025
- CommitteeJan 31, 2025
- Passed HouseMar 3, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Democrat
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Lobbying
- At least 3
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill orders a study and nothing more.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 3, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill orders a study and nothing more. It directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to review the procurement practices of defense and civilian agencies and determine whether the lowest price technically acceptable source selection process, set out in section 15.101-2 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, has created any national security risk. The Director must report the results within 180 days to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The bill changes no procurement rule and grants no new authority. It defines the covered agencies by reference to the definition of agency in section 133 of title 41.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 3 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 17 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 2 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
1 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 1592, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company & Affiliates; American Medical Manufacturers Association; United Aerial Firefighters Association. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.