New council gives manufacturing workers a voice on policy.
S. 433 — National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act · Filed by Gary Peters (D-MI) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 5, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill creates a National Manufacturing Advisory Council in the Department of Commerce. The council will have up to 30 members from factories, workers, and colleges. It will meet at least twice a year. It will give advice about manufacturing, jobs, supply chains, and global competition. The council will make a plan each year. It replaces an old council and ends after five years.
Who it affects
Manufacturing workers, small factory owners, and colleges can join the council. The Department of Commerce will listen to the council's ideas. Congress will read the council's yearly plans.
One thing to notice
The council can only give advice. It cannot make rules. It has no money set aside, so what it does depends on the Department of Commerce.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Feb 5, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Feb 5, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
- Mar 12, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably”
- Jul 14, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4339; text of amendment in the nature of a…”
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 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $489,417 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 50 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Gary Peters, who sponsored the bill, received $-186,100 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Society of Civil Engineers — $489,417 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- National Manufacturing Advisory Council — A group that gives advice to the government about making things and jobs.
- Department of Commerce — The part of the government that helps business and trade.
- supply chains — The path materials take from makers to stores to people who buy them.
- advisory — Able to give ideas and advice, but not make final decisions.
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (11,080 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 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 Dec 2025 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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