INNOVATE Act: What It Does

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Introduced, doneMarch 5, 2025
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What Congress Said

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Republicans9 spoke

In February of 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with the goal of marching to Kyiv and reestablishing Ukraine as part of Russia, restoring that part of the Soviet Union, so to speak. Putin, at first, very nearly succeeded. The Russian army came within miles of Kyiv. But then what happened?
John CornynR-TX, Senate, September 10, 2025
We have known for years that Big Tech puts profit over our children's safety. Every parent will tell you this is an issue of concern for them.
Marsha BlackburnR-TN, Senate, September 10, 2025
20 years ago this month, Hurricane Rita hit Louisiana, and 1 year ago tomorrow, Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana.
Bill CassidyR-LA, Senate, September 10, 2025

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Over 40 years ago, the SBIR Program was established as America's seed fund to serve as an innovation pipeline to support our warfighters and maintain a technological edge.
Joni ErnstR-IA, Senate, September 10, 2025
Since President Trump took office, Democrats have weaponized the rules of the Senate. Regardless of qualifications, every Trump nominee has gotten the same treatment: total obstruction, total warfare.
John BarrassoR-WY, Senate, September 10, 2025
That is the charge before us. Our mission is to ensure Lee and Eric are remembered not as headlines but as symbols of Utah values and American courage.
John R. CurtisR-UT, Senate, September 10, 2025
We all have a responsibility to understand the history of our country. We have a responsibility to learn from that history, and we learn from that history so we don't repeat the failures of the past.
Chuck GrassleyR-IA, Senate, September 10, 2025
Reserving the right to object, this resolution is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to strip away the earned honors of a veteran who deployed seven times during her many years in the U.S. Air Force. Ashli Babbitt earned these funeral honors through her service to this Nation.
Tommy TubervilleR-AL, Senate, September 10, 2025
Political violence, which this attack seems to be, has no place in this country--none.
John ThuneR-SD, Senate, September 10, 2025

Democrats9 spoke

So let me say clearly to President Trump: With Putin thumbing his nose at us, violating NATO airspace, and testing American resolve, this is not the time to back away from our frontline allies. It is certainly not the time to halt bipartisan congressional support to the Baltic States. We should not be fooled.
Richard J. DurbinD-IL, Senate, September 10, 2025
The latest aggression by Putin should send a shiver down the spines of every American. I warned of this scenario as the Senate debated sending more military support to Ukraine, and I warned at that point that any division, any hesitation of our resolve against Putin would be taken by him as weakness.
Charles E. SchumerD-NY, Senate, September 10, 2025
I was listening to the majority whip, and I have got to say, I have a little whiplash. I mean, I was here. I was negotiating. It was late July. We were passing paper back and forth between the Democratic and Republican caucus. The cloakrooms were working together, and we had a deal.
Brian SchatzD-HI, Senate, September 10, 2025

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Surprise, surprise--guess who all of a sudden has changed their tune. Not only do Senate Republicans now want to revisit the nominations process and the confirmation process, they are doing it in a way that can have them very, very quickly confirm unlimited numbers of these nominees.
Alex PadillaD-CA, Senate, September 10, 2025
I wish this weren't true, but all of those things are happening in America today.
Christopher MurphyD-CT, Senate, September 10, 2025
I have a lot of objections to many of the Trump policies, but there are many here who support the Trump policies. And that is the point. It is our job to debate, and then whoever gets the votes, that policy will prevail.
Peter WelchD-VT, Senate, September 10, 2025
Why do I tell you all of this? Because that is how we came to have a motion called cloture here in the U.S. Senate because in 1917, there was a debate over putting armaments over commercial ships.
Jeff MerkleyD-OR, Senate, September 10, 2025
Military honors are sacred. They are reserved for the men and women who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the rule of law and actually lived up to it. To give them to Babbitt would be a spit in the face to all of them and to every veteran who died defending this country.
Ruben GallegoD-AZ, Senate, September 10, 2025
Should that legislation come to the Senate and the Senator from Iowa block my reauthorization legislation, I will support the House's 1-year extension. It is important that these programs do not face arbitrary, wholesale changes that would weaken American innovation and small businesses' role in it.
Edward J. MarkeyD-MA, Senate, September 10, 2025

Timeline

Jul 23, 2025SenateCommittee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
Mar 5, 2025Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
Mar 5, 2025SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Mar 5, 2025Introduced
Mar 5, 2025Committee

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