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The Senate Committee on Armed Services has legislative jurisdiction over military and defense.
Roger F. Wicker
Republican • MS
John F. Reed
Democrat • RI
Debra Fischer
Republican • NE
Jeanne Shaheen
Democrat • NH
Kirsten Gillibrand
Democrat • NY
Thomas Bryant Cotton
Republican • AR
Marion Michael Rounds
Republican • SD
Richard Blumenthal
Democrat • CT
Joni Ernst
Republican • IA
Mazie Hirono
Democrat • HI
Daniel Scott Sullivan
Republican • AK
Timothy Michael Kaine
Democrat • VA
Angus Stanley King
Independent • ME
Kevin Cramer
Republican • ND
Elizabeth Warren
Democrat • MA
Richard Lynn Scott
Republican • FL
Gary C. Peters
Democrat • MI
Thomas Hawley Tuberville
Republican • AL
Tammy Duckworth
Democrat • IL
Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen
Democrat • NV
Theodore Paul Budd
Republican • NC
Eric Stephen Schmitt
Republican • MO
Mark Edward Kelly
Democrat • AZ
Elissa Slotkin
Democrat • MI
James E. Banks
Republican • IN
Timothy Patrick Sheehy
Republican • MT
MARCH for Military Servicemembers Act
The bill restores DoD-provided abortion care for eligible service members and beneficiaries—improving access and reducing costs for those populations—while creating political objections, potential strains on military medical resources, and a risk of legal challenges.
Secure and Accountable Military AI Act of 2026
The bill strengthens DoD oversight, human control, and incident reporting for high‑risk military AI—improving safety and accountability—but does so at the cost of significant compliance costs, potential delays to urgent deployments, and renewed civil‑liberty and transparency risks if carve‑outs or classified processes are overbroad.
Slash the Pentagon Act
The bill protects service members' pay and health benefits while imposing a $750 billion FY2027 defense cap, trading budget restraint for increased risk to readiness, modernization, and crisis-response flexibility.
HALO Act of 2026
The bill raises DoD AI safety, testing, oversight, and civil‑liberties protections—improving reliability, human control, and transparency—but does so at the cost of higher program and administrative expenses, slower fielding and operational flexibility, and remaining risks from targeted exemptions and disclosure of sensitive vulnerabilities.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act of 2026
The bill increases safety, privacy, and oversight of Department of Defense AI and autonomous systems—reducing civil‑liberty and lethal‑use risks—while still allowing accelerated or waived deployments and exemptions that could undermine those protections and raise costs.
Ultimate Human Responsibility in Defense Systems Act of 2026
The bill meaningfully increases safety, accountability, training, and oversight of autonomous weapons—reducing unintended harm and legal risk—while imposing higher costs, added bureaucracy, operational constraints in time‑critical scenarios, and potential security/transparency trade‑offs.
Repeal the Military Selective Service Act.
The bill restores civil rights and simplifies federal administration by ending draft registration and winding down the Selective Service, but it removes a ready mobilization tool and creates record-access and administrative transition risks for veterans, states, and some federal employees.
Luxury JET Act
The bill strengthens oversight and keeps U.S. military control of a foreign-donated executive aircraft to protect taxpayers and reduce conflicts of interest, but it may constrain Pentagon flexibility, impose additional short‑term costs, and risk sensitive disclosures if not handled carefully.
Duty Status Reform Act
The bill modernizes and harmonizes reserve and Guard legal definitions and expands benefit eligibility—improving coverage for many servicemembers, families, and administrators—but does so at the cost of higher federal spending, substantial administrative transition burden, and increased legal/activation risks for some service members and state authorities.
Provide for a requirement for networked autonomous kinetic capability against small unmanned aircraft systems.
The bill strengthens brigade defenses and speeds sensor-to-shooter responses against small drones while increasing taxpayer costs, adding cyber/attack-surface risks, and raising the possibility of unintended kinetic engagements if safeguards are insufficient.
Shows active legislation in this committee's pipeline. Controversiality scores and analysis are AI-generated from the 119th Congress.
Stance scores range from -1 (opposes) to +1 (supports), based on bills referred to this committee in the 119th Congress. Confidence dot shown for high-confidence scores.
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