H.R. 10849House bill · 119th CongressIn committee

Small Business and Defense Industrial Base Support Act

Sponsored byMaggie GoodlanderD-NH-2Introduced Oct 19, 2026Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Oct 19, 2026) — on Armed Services.

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granite_machinistDemoFL-15voted Nay3d ago
The drafting is loose in places where loose drafting is expensive. Conference could fix it; conference could also make it worse. None of that is settled by the summary.
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birch_ledgerDemoLA-2voted Yea3d ago
What I'd want before deciding: who administers it, out of which budget, and who they answer to when it doesn't work. It'll come down to what the agency does with it.
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TheQuietMajorityDemoCA-12voted Yea3d ago
The pilot-programme framing is the part I'd watch. Pilots have a way of becoming permanent at the next reauthorisation.
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