Great Lakes research funding extended five years with bipartisan support.
S. 2878 — Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act · Filed by Gary Peters (D-MI) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Signed
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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 money flowing to scientific work on the Great Lakes Basin without requiring a new appropriations bill.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative function is to extend an existing authorization for Great Lakes fishery research and monitoring. It is a routine reauthorization of public environmental science funding.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens benefit from continued scientific monitoring and research on fishery health, water quality, and ecosystem management in the Great Lakes—a shared resource affecting millions. The extension ensures uninterrupted funding for public-interest environmental science without new costs to taxpayers beyond the already-appropriated baseline.
Named in the bill
Great Lakes Basin, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2020, Section 201(d) of title II of division P
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Sep 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 18, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works”
- Oct 29, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Capito without amendment.”
- Nov 19, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8248; text: CR S8248)”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5878)”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Stauber moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Dec 26, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-67”
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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.
Gary Peters, the sponsor, reported $-186,100 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 (364 characters) on Jun 8, 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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