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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.
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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.
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To improve the missile defense capabilities of the United States, and for other purposes.
United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
Veterans’ ACCESS Act of 2025
To make certain improvements in the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to identify, integrate, and deploy new, innovative, disruptive, or other emerging or advanced technologies to enhance, or address capability gaps in, border security operations, and for other purposes.
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
To impose additional sanctions with respect to Iran and modify other existing sanctions with respect to Iran, and for other purposes.
To promote election integrity, voter confidence, and faith in elections by removing Federal impediments to, equipping States with tools for, and establishing voluntary considerations to support effective State administration of Federal elections, improving election administration in the District of Columbia, improving the effectiveness of military voting programs, enhancing election security, and protecting political speech, and for other purposes.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
To secure the international borders of the United States, and for other purposes.
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