Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act
Official title: A bill to amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to clarify a provision relating to certain contents of registrations under that Act.
Sponsor: Sen. Chuck Grassley R-IAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2025
- Committee actionJul 30, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 16, 2025 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 17, 2025 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 856.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 856, Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act” on September 19, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 30, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61754
- CBO publication date
- September 19, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 856, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/856
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 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 July 24, 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
5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 5 cosponsors (60%) are from the other party.
John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Gary Peters (D-MI).
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.