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Vote Yes on this bill if you want the Bureau of Prisons to act quickly on known safety problems, track inmate sexual harassment and assault against staff more carefully, and create national standards to better protect prison employees.
Organizations that support this bill may include correctional officers' unions, prison employee associations, workplace safety advocates, and groups that want stronger oversight of the federal prison system.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid expanding federal prison rules and oversight, or if you believe the bill could lead to harsher punishments and more bureaucracy without clearly solving the problem.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include civil liberties groups, prisoner rights advocates, and limited-government organizations concerned about stricter prison punishments, broader federal rules, or added bureaucracy.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want the public to share in profits from powerful AI companies, stronger government oversight of major AI firms, direct public benefits from AI growth, and tougher rules against corporate concentration and tax avoidance.
Organizations that support this bill may include labor unions, consumer advocates, artists’ and journalists’ groups, antitrust reform groups, AI safety advocates, and organizations that favor sharing AI wealth with the public.
Vote No on this bill if you want to protect private ownership of AI companies, avoid giving the federal government a 50 percent stake in major firms, reduce the risk of slowing investment and innovation, and limit new reporting and breakup requirements on the AI industry.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include large AI companies, tech industry trade groups, venture capital and investor associations, business lobbies, and free-market organizations that oppose major government ownership of private firms.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to keep the Department of Defense from feeding military-style weapons and certain ammunition into the civilian market and to require stronger background checks, dealer standards, and tracking to reduce gun trafficking, theft, mass shootings, and self-harm.
Organizations that support this bill may include gun violence prevention groups, public health advocates, and community organizations that want stricter rules on military-style weapons, ammunition sales, background checks, and dealer oversight.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid new federal limits on gun and ammunition sales, prevent added compliance costs and recordkeeping rules for dealers, and allow the Defense Department to keep working with a broader range of firearms and ammunition sellers.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include gun rights groups, firearms industry trade associations, ammunition sellers, and dealers that object to tighter sales limits, added licensing, recordkeeping, and contract restrictions.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want abortion providers to be required to perform an ultrasound, give detailed information at least 24 hours in advance, and face fines or lawsuits if they do not follow these rules.
Organizations that support this bill may include anti-abortion advocacy groups, religious conservative organizations, and groups that favor stricter abortion regulations and stronger informed consent rules.
Vote No on this bill if you want to protect easier access to abortion care, reduce mandatory delays and legal risks for providers, and avoid more federal rules on private medical decisions.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include abortion rights groups, medical associations concerned about government-mandated counseling, and civil liberties organizations focused on patient autonomy and access to care.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want low-income families to keep receiving SNAP food benefits for up to 90 days during the first federal shutdown of a fiscal year.
Organizations that support this bill may include anti-hunger groups, food banks, SNAP advocates, children’s organizations, and grocery industry groups that want food assistance to continue during government shutdowns.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid creating automatic shutdown funding for SNAP and keep stronger pressure on Congress to resolve budget lapses through the normal appropriations process.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include federal spending watchdogs, small-government groups, and budget hawks that oppose automatic backup funding during a lapse in appropriations.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to break up dominant meatpackers, give independent farmers and small processors a fairer market, limit foreign control of major meat operations, and try to lower meat prices for families.
Organizations that support this bill may include independent rancher groups, farmers’ cooperatives, small meat processors, labor unions representing meatpacking workers, consumer advocates, and small grocery store associations.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid major federal intervention in the meat industry, keep existing large-scale meatpacking structures in place, and reduce the risk of supply disruption, higher business costs, or government overreach.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include large meatpacking companies, multinational food corporations, industry trade associations, large feedlot interests, and business groups that oppose forced breakups and foreign ownership limits.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want the federal government and states to have stronger power to punish price gouging, protect consumers during disasters and shortages, and require large public companies to be more transparent about why they raise prices.
Organizations that support this bill may include consumer advocacy groups, anti-monopoly organizations, labor unions, and state officials who want stronger tools to stop excessive price increases during emergencies and market disruptions.
Vote No on this bill if you want to limit federal intervention in pricing, avoid broad FTC enforcement powers and large penalties, and reduce the compliance and reporting burdens this bill would place on businesses and public companies.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include business trade associations, large retailers, manufacturers, energy companies, and investor groups concerned about heavier regulation, legal risk, and new corporate reporting requirements.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to crack down on unfair grocery price hikes, stop stores from using personal data to charge different prices, require clearer price displays, and give shoppers and states stronger power to sue over violations.
Organizations that support this bill may include consumer advocacy groups, anti-hunger organizations, privacy rights groups, and antitrust reform advocates that want lower grocery costs, clearer pricing, and stronger limits on the use of shopper data.
Vote No on this bill if you want grocery stores to keep more flexibility in how they set prices, use digital shelf labels and shopper data, and avoid new federal rules, lawsuits, and compliance costs that businesses may say could raise operating expenses.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include grocery store trade associations, large supermarket chains, retail technology companies, facial recognition vendors, and business groups that oppose tighter pricing rules and restrictions on digital pricing tools.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to expand the supply of manufactured homes by including homes built without a permanent chassis, while requiring states to treat them like other manufactured homes for financing, insurance, taxes, transport, sale, and installation.
Organizations that support this bill may include manufactured housing industry groups, affordable housing advocates, home builders, lenders, and business groups that want more lower-cost housing options and clearer rules across states.
Vote No on this bill if you want to preserve stronger state and local control over manufactured housing rules, avoid new state certification mandates, and prevent federal pressure that could force states to allow new home types or block their sale if state laws are not updated on time.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include local government associations, some state regulators, neighborhood groups, and housing or consumer advocates concerned about federal preemption, state compliance burdens, or weaker local control over housing standards.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to ban corporate PACs run by for-profit companies, shut down existing ones within a year, and reduce business influence in elections.
Organizations that support this bill may include campaign finance reform groups, voting rights advocates, and public interest organizations that want to reduce the political power of for-profit corporations.
Vote No on this bill if you want for-profit companies to keep using PACs to support candidates and you believe this bill would limit political participation too much.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include business associations, corporate lobbying groups, and free speech advocates that want companies to keep more options for political participation.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to cap donations to Super PACs, reduce the power of billionaires and special interests in elections, lower corruption risks, and strengthen public trust in government.
Organizations that support this bill may include campaign finance reform groups, anti-corruption watchdogs, and civic organizations that want to reduce the influence of wealthy donors in federal elections.
Vote No on this bill if you want Super PACs to keep raising unlimited funds, believe large donors should be free to spend heavily on political advocacy, or worry that new limits could restrict political speech and activity.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include Super PACs, political advocacy groups that rely on large donations, and free speech groups that argue contribution limits restrict political participation.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to stop the federal government from issuing or enforcing a national workplace heat rule and give employers more flexibility with fewer new regulations and costs.
Organizations that support this bill may include business associations, farming groups, construction and manufacturing employers, and others that want to block a new federal heat-safety mandate and avoid added compliance costs.
Vote No on this bill if you want the Labor Department to be able to create and enforce federal heat-safety standards to help prevent heat illness, injuries, and deaths on the job.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include labor unions, worker safety advocates, public health groups, and employee rights organizations that want nationwide heat protections for people working indoors and outdoors.