Great Lakes research funding extended five years with bipartisan support.
H.R. 1809 — Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act · Filed by Mike Quigley (D-IL) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 3, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill extends federal funding for Great Lakes fishery monitoring, assessment, and research programs by five years, from 2025 to 2030. It amends an existing appropriations statute to keep the research authorization alive without requiring a new appropriation or policy change.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to extend an existing appropriations authorization for Great Lakes fishery research by five years. It is a routine reauthorization with no policy change, no new mechanism, and no private beneficiary carve-out.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens and Great Lakes communities benefit from continued federal funding for fishery research, environmental monitoring, and ecosystem assessment — public goods that support both ecological health and regional economies dependent on fisheries. The extension imposes no new costs on citizens and maintains existing protections.
Named in the bill
Great Lakes Basin, Section 201(d) of Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020, House Committee on Natural Resources
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
- Mar 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Apr 8, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jul 15, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 15, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $900,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 62 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mike Quigley, the sponsor, reported $552,948 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Nature Conservancy — $900,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (432 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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