Bill stops Air Force from reducing MQ-9 drone aircraft until 2032.
H.R. 9119 — To provide a prohibition on certain reductions to MQ-9 aircraft units, and for other purposes. · Filed by Brian Babin (R-TX) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 3, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill says the Air Force cannot reduce or retire MQ-9 drones through 2032. The Air Force can only make changes if aircraft are unsafe or damaged. State governors must approve mission changes. The Air Force must write a report on fleet plans.
Who it affects
The Air Force must follow this rule for seven years. Military leaders cannot make changes to drone units during that time.
One thing to notice
The bill locks in spending on one drone type for seven years. The Air Force cannot switch to newer aircraft.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 3, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 3, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $10,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Brian Babin, who sponsored the bill, received $443,773 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Battle Creek Unlimited — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- retire — To stop using something and take it out of service.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jun 10, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 6, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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