Jacky Rosen

This Senate resolution expresses concern about the Federal Government's recent acquisition of equity stakes in private companies and calls for ethics safeguards around those investments. Since January 2025, federal agencies have announced over 35 transactions investing more than $27 billion in taxpayer funds to acquire ownership interests in private companies. The resolution raises specific concerns about potential conflicts of interest, citing examples where companies receiving federal investments had connections to families of Trump administration officials, including a rare earth magnet manufacturer that received $620 million in loans and a $50 million equity stake after Trump's son's investment firm backed the company. The resolution expresses the Senate's view that the President, Vice President, Cabinet members, Congress members, and their families should be prohibited from profiting from federal equity transactions or from selling equity stakes that the government later divests. This is a nonbinding resolution expressing the Senate's position rather than creating enforceable law.

The Veteran Education Empowerment Act reauthorizes and expands a federal grant program that helps colleges and universities establish and operate Student Veteran Centers, which provide dedicated physical spaces and support services for veterans attending school. The bill makes grants of up to $500,000 available to individual institutions or consortiums of schools for four-year periods, with funds used to create or improve these centers and offer services like peer tutoring, benefits counseling, and mental health support. The legislation prioritizes grants to schools with significant veteran populations, those partnering with veteran service organizations, and those committing to hire veteran staff members and offer specialized veteran orientations. The bill requires the Department of Education to report to Congress within three years on grant outcomes and to develop a best practices website for student veteran services. Funding is authorized for fiscal year 2027 and the following seven fiscal years, with the exact amount to be determined through the annual appropriations process.

The Veteran Technology Employment Success Act of 2026 modifies how the Department of Veterans Affairs measures employment success for veterans in the VET TEC program, which provides training in high-technology fields. The bill changes the employment rate calculation to measure whether veterans are actually working 180 days after completing their training, while excluding cases where veterans are hired by the training provider organization itself or by its affiliates as instructors. The legislation also requires the VA to make employment reports publicly available rather than just submitting them to Congress, and directs the department to break down employment data by full-time, part-time, and self-employment categories. Additionally, the bill requires the VA to continuously collect feedback from veteran participants and use the GI Bill School Feedback Tool to evaluate and improve the program going forward. This legislation aims to ensure more accurate measurement of the VET TEC program's effectiveness in helping veterans gain meaningful employment in the technology sector.

To apply the prohibition relating to self-promotion through official advertisements to the President and the Vice President.

This Senate resolution expresses opposition to 50 percent tariffs that President Trump imposed on Canadian goods in August 2026 using an obscure provision of the Tariff Act. The resolution argues these tariffs harm American consumers and businesses by raising costs on everyday goods, disrupting supply chains, and compounding affordability pressures on housing and transportation. It also criticizes the hostile rhetoric surrounding the tariffs, including Trump's comments about making Canada the "51st State" and renaming Lake Ontario, which the resolution notes has already caused Canadian tourism to the United States to drop 25 percent. Canada responded with its own retaliatory tariffs worth $27.6 billion, further escalating the trade dispute. The resolution calls on the President to rescind the tariffs, end the inflammatory rhetoric, and restore the bilateral relationship with one of America's largest trading partners and closest allies.

This bill requires the Department of Defense to create a pilot program that pairs military cyber units with universities that have earned recognition as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity from the National Security Agency. The program aims to strengthen the nation's cyber workforce by enabling military cyber operators and student researchers to collaborate on training exercises, research projects, and real operational support while building direct pathways for students into federal cybersecurity careers. The pilot will leverage existing scholarship programs and provide guidance to help students transition into Department of Defense or other federal government cybersecurity positions. The Defense Secretary must establish the program within one year of the bill's enactment and will need to develop assessment tools to measure its effectiveness, including tracking how many students move into federal cyber careers and analyzing the costs and benefits of the partnerships. The pilot program is set to run until September 30, 2031, at which point it will automatically end unless Congress takes further action.

This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve how it uses mobile medical units to serve veterans in rural and underserved areas. The VA must designate an office to oversee the mobile medical unit program, conduct a comprehensive inventory of all its units to assess their condition and current use, and evaluate whether certain VA medical centers should be required to deploy these units to rural areas at least once yearly. Within 180 days of the bill's enactment, the VA must complete these assessments and submit a detailed report to Congress identifying barriers to expanding mobile medical unit services, such as staffing shortages and funding limitations, along with recommendations for improvement. The bill specifically requires the VA to work with local veterans service organizations to identify suitable deployment locations and to address findings from a prior 2023 Comptroller General report on mobile medical unit operations. No specific funding is authorized in the legislation, but it establishes clear timelines for the VA to complete these planning and assessment efforts over the next six months to a year.

This bill directs the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop a comprehensive strategy for promoting Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum technologies globally, with particular emphasis on countering efforts by China and other adversaries to undermine American technological leadership. The plan must be completed within 180 days and submitted to Congress, and it will focus on advocating for harmonized spectrum use at the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference in Shanghai, which will involve coordination across multiple federal agencies including the State Department, Defense Department, and intelligence agencies. The bill emphasizes that Wi-Fi technology is a major economic driver contributing over $1 trillion annually to the U.S. economy and is critical infrastructure for commercial activity, education, healthcare, and public safety. Following the conclusion of the 2027 conference, the Commerce Department must submit an implementation report to Congress within 90 days detailing how effectively the strategy was executed and including mechanisms to track progress. The legislation contains no new direct appropriations but establishes firm timelines and interagency coordination requirements to ensure a unified American position at the international conference.

The ACPAC Modernization Act modifies the Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee, which was established to provide recommendations on airline consumer protection issues. The bill adds ticket agents as members of the committee, expanding the group to include this stakeholder perspective in aviation consumer protection discussions. The legislation amends Section 411 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, making technical corrections to the committee's membership structure. The bill was introduced by Senator Rosen in August 2026 and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

The Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2026 terminates the decades-long licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada and prohibits the federal government from reconsidering the site for this purpose in the future. The bill requires the Secretary of Energy to reclaim the Yucca Mountain site and mitigate environmental damage caused by previous characterization activities. Within 180 days of enactment, the Office of Management and Budget must submit a study to Congress examining the economic viability and job creation potential of alternative uses for the site, including renewable energy development, scientific research, and defense applications such as unmanned aircraft command facilities. The legislation affects the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Nevada residents who have long opposed the nuclear waste repository project, while the study is intended to identify new economic opportunities for the site.

This bill authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to expand air quality monitoring in rural and remote areas affected by wildfires by funding portable air sensors, which are cheaper and easier to operate than traditional air monitors. The legislation allows existing Clean Air Act grants to be used for purchasing and operating these sensors, and it creates new competitive grant programs providing $10 million annually from 2027 through 2032 for air pollution control agencies to deploy sensors in underserved communities. The bill also directs the EPA to expand existing air sensor loan programs into regions and tribal lands not currently served and to provide technical assistance for sensor placement, maintenance, and data management. Priority will be given to rural areas that currently lack air quality monitoring infrastructure and communities most severely impacted by wildfire smoke, which poses documented health risks including respiratory and cardiac complications. The EPA must develop standardized quality assurance templates within 180 days to ensure consistent implementation across all programs.

This resolution condemns a Chinese law, known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, for institutionalizing coercive assimilation of ethnic and religious minorities. The resolution also calls on the President to consider related sanctions and urges the Department of State to work with allies to monitor and report on the impacts of the law.

The Preserving Patient Access Act protects Medicare beneficiaries and individuals with private insurance from losing access to their doctors and medications mid-year. Under the bill, Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans cannot remove a patient's current doctor from their network or eliminate coverage for a drug the patient is currently taking without allowing that patient to switch to a different plan outside the normal enrollment period. The same protections apply to people with individual health insurance plans purchased through the marketplace or privately. These changes take effect January 1, 2027, giving insurance plans time to adjust their policies and procedures. The bill essentially creates new mid-year escape routes for patients who would otherwise be forced to switch providers or medications or pay out-of-pocket costs until the next open enrollment period.