S. 1071 · 119th Congress · Armed forces and national security
FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
How each chamber voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: these votes covered more than one measure.
Senate · Dec 17, 2025
Roll call ↗77
20
The Senate’s vote on the final text.
House · Dec 10, 2025
Roll call ↗312
112
Passed the House.
This is a genuine bundle. The core seven divisions do the expected defense work, but Division H ("Other Matters") attaches many provisions with no defense nexus. Among them: a one-year extension of the Defense Production Act (Sec. 8101), a securities law change requiring insider disclosures by directors and officers of foreign private issuers (Sec. 8103), a reauthorization of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Sec. 8202), an extension of Supreme Court Police protective authority to retired and former justices and their families (Sec. 8201), standalone Taiwan, fentanyl, and Western Balkans titles, a South Pacific tuna treaty implementation, a new outbound-investment screening regime (Title LXXXV, Sec. 8521), the repeal of both Iraq use-of-force authorizations (Sec. 8370), and the repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act (Sec. 8369). A reader tracking any one of these riders would not find it under a defense bill's title.
Law 279 days after it was introduced
Public Law 119-60. Each step dated from the congress.gov record
- IntroducedMar 14, 2025
- CommitteeMar 14, 2025
- Passed SenateAug 1, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 10, 2025
- Senate final voteDec 17, 2025
- Became lawDec 18, 2025
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Republican
- Committees
- House Committee on Armed ServicesSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 372
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This is the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the annual law that sets defense policy and authorizes military spending.
How each member voted
The Senate roll call, vote on the final text, December 17, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · Sen · MD
D · Sen · WI
R · Sen · IN
R · Sen · WY
This is the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the annual law that sets defense policy and authorizes military spending. Organized into eight divisions, it authorizes appropriations for procurement, operations, military construction, Department of Energy national security programs, and the Coast Guard, and it sets personnel levels and pay policy. It also folds in a State Department authorization and an intelligence authorization for the year. Its final division, "Other Matters," carries a long list of provisions with little or no connection to defense, including an extension of the Defense Production Act, new securities-disclosure rules for foreign company insiders, a reauthorization of a child-exploitation prevention program, and a new regime restricting certain U.S. investments abroad. That same division repeals both authorizations for the use of military force in Iraq and repeals the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019.
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 372 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 724 quarterly reports filed by 66 lobbying firms and by 153 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.
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.
5 of them, in no ranking: Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD); True Anomaly, Inc.; Medicom Technologies, Inc; Alliance for Retired Americans; The Ai Policy Network Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 367 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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.