Senate celebrates Las Vegas Aces' WNBA championship victory
S.Res. 535 — A resolution commending and congratulating the Las Vegas Aces professional basketball team on winning the 2025 Women's National Basketball Association championship. · Filed by Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Dec 8, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This is a ceremonial Senate resolution congratulating the Las Vegas Aces professional basketball team for winning the 2025 WNBA championship. It recognizes the team's athletic achievement, highlights individual player accomplishments (particularly A'ja Wilson's historic MVP sweep), and commends the ownership and coaching staff. The resolution has no legal force and creates no new law, rights, or obligations.
Why we flagged it
This is a standard congressional resolution honoring a professional sports team's championship victory. It contains no substantive legislative provisions, appropriations, or policy changes — only ceremonial recognition and congratulations.
Who it affects
This is a non-binding ceremonial resolution with no direct fiscal or regulatory impact on citizens. It celebrates a women's sports achievement and implicitly affirms public recognition of women's athletics, which may have modest positive cultural signaling value for gender equity in sports.
Named in the bill
Las Vegas Aces, WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association), A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Becky Hammon, Mark Davis (owner), Nikki Fargas (president), Senate
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Dec 8, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Dec 8, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a…”
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How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 5, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
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