Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
COUNTER Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy in response to the global basing intentions of the People's Republic of China.
Sponsor: Sen. Christopher Coons D-DEWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 13, 2025
- Committee actionJun 5, 2025
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 18, 2025 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 96.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1731.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S.1731, Combating PRC Overseas and Unlawful Networked Threats through Enhanced Resilience Act of 2025” on July 25, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 18, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 25, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61532
- CBO publication date
- July 25, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1731, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/1731
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
John Cornyn (R-TX), Timothy Kaine (D-VA), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).
More from the sponsor
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Related bills
- H.R. 4458 (119th) COUNTER Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.