Senate honors health care workers during a special week
S.Res. 230 — A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Hospital Week, to be observed from May 11 through May 17, 2025. · Filed by John Barrasso (R-WY) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced May 14, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This is a formal statement supporting a special week. The week runs from May 11 to May 17, 2025. It honors the work that health care workers do. The statement does not create new laws or spend money.
Who it affects
Health care workers are honored in this statement. No one's laws or costs change because of it.
One thing to notice
This is only a statement of support. It does not make health care workers do anything new.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 1 Democrats, 1 Independents.
- May 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 14, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with 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 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $4,470,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 53 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
John Barrasso, who sponsored the bill, received $395,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Hospital Association — $4,470,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- formal statement — An official written message from Congress about a topic.
- health care workers — People who work in hospitals and help sick and hurt people.
- 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 bill text published by Congress.gov (3,715 characters) on Sep 18, 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 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 2026-09-18.
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