H.R. 2987House bill · 119th CongressIn the SenateCommerce

CEASE Act of 2025

Sponsored byRobert P. Bresnahan, Jr.R-PA-8Introduced Apr 24, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Jun 9, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Apr 24, 2025

Capping Excessive Awarding of SBLC Entrants Act or the CEASE Act

This bill limits the number of for-profit small business lending companies that are authorized make 7(a) loans to not more than 16 at any time.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

What Congress did

2 recorded
  • decisive vote

    House · Jun 5, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    214198

    Passed

    Every vote →
  • On

    House · Jun 5, 2025

    The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.

    201212

    Failed

    Every vote →

Who lobbied on this

1 organization

These organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.

  • …and Accountability for a Better Ledger Economy Act of 2025 H.R. 2835 The Small Bank Holding Company Relief Act H.R. 2885 The Bank Loan Privacy Act H.R. 2987 CEASE Act H.R. 3234 Reciprocal Deposits H.R. 3380 TAILOR Act of 2025 H.R. 3633, the CLARITY Act H.R. 3709 Mentor-Protege Program for Small… filing ↗

Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.

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