Putting Veterans First Act of 2025
Latest action · Mar 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 13, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 13, 2025 to Mar 14, 2025; 20 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-CA | Alex Padilla | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NV | Catherine Cortez Masto | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NV | Jacky Rosen | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-CO | John W. Hickenlooper | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-AZ | Mark Kelly | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-VA | Tim Kaine | Original | Mar 13, 2025 |
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Mar 14, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Mar 13, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 13, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Mar 13, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
In the Congressional Record 3
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2637 | Richard Blumenthal D-CT | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2305 | Richard Blumenthal D-CT | Apr 4, 2025 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1678–S1680 | Richard Blumenthal D-CT | Mar 11, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend title 5 and title 38, United States Code, to put veteran and military families first and to provide protections for employees, benefits, and programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Putting Veterans First Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 13, 2025Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
