Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act
Official title: A bill to require United States foreign assistance commodities to be made available for their intended purposes before they expire.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 10, 2025
- Committee actionJun 17, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 27, 2026 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 497.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2252.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2252, Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act” on July 28, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on July 27, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 28, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62607
- CBO publication date
- July 28, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2252, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/2252
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 11, 2026
- 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 August 11, 2026). 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
13 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 11 Democrats
2 of 13 cosponsors (15%) are from the other party.
Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Timothy Kaine (D-VA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Patty Murray (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).
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