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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Steve Cohen’s recorded connection
2 recorded votes on this bill
Voted Nay — On Passage, Dec 10, 2025
Voted Yea — On Motion to Commit, Dec 10, 2025
Unclear effects on Department of Defense personnel hiring and promotion processes
No material effect identified
Amends title 5 personnel provisions to update civilian hiring and promotion authorities for the Department of Defense. DoD civilian personnel benefit from modernized hiring practices that improve the department's ability to recruit and manage its workforce.
Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.
Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.
Counts describe the number of identified effects, not their size or public value. Bill and clause counts are distinct within each view. Shared evidence may appear under several groups or policy areas, so their counts should not be added together.
Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.
Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.