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S 933

S. 933 is the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2025, a science and space-policy measure in the captured official record. It was selected through Ted Cruz's sponsor identifier and the related Senate Commerce Committee context. The latest captured action orders the bill reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, making committee consideration the most informative part of its current procedural story.

Congress.gov resources retrieved Sep 5, 2026 · Source record updated Jul 8, 2026

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Gov Influence analytical brief

Bottom-line assessment

Gov Influence assessmentModerate confidence

S 933's captured procedural record reaches committee action; its role here is legislative context, not evidence of a policy outcome.

As of 2026-03-04, the captured official action history reaches committee action. Latest recorded action: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. The bill appears in 1 reviewed issue group and has 1 matched sponsor profile.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: The assessment combines the deterministic procedural stage with official sponsor identity and a separately reviewed issue-classification basis. Those facts explain where the measure sits in the captured legislative process and why it appears in this collection, while withholding any claim about future momentum, organizational support or opposition, lobbying causation, success, or policy effect.

Scope: S 933, captured 2025-03-11 through 2026-03-04, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for S 933.

Other plausible interpretation

  • The captured Congress.gov history may be superseded by later official action, and a title, policy area, subject, sponsor, or nearby lobbying reference can explain relevance without showing that any organization took a position or affected the bill.

Method: bill-profile-assessment-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Being ordered reported is a committee action in the captured record, not Senate passage, enactment, or a forecast of the bill's future.

Why this matters

What the pattern adds to the record

The current record shows meaningful committee action but no chamber passage, offering a concrete view of legislation progressing within committee.

Supporting analysis

Key findings

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

3 distinct milestones summarize where the captured S 933 record advances—and where it stops.

2025-03-11: introduced; 2025-03-11: referral; 2026-03-04: committee.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: From the complete captured Congress.gov history, show up to five novice-useful milestones: introduction, the first referral, a committee or report milestone, one passage event per chamber, presidential or enactment action, and the latest action when distinct. Exact duplicates are removed. The selected chronology makes procedural movement visible without repeating administrative rows; the absence of a later selected stage means only that it is not supported by this captured history, not that the bill is permanently inactive or lacks significance.

Scope: S 933, captured 2025-03-11 through 2026-03-04, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for S 933.

Method: bill-action-timeline-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

S 933's direct sponsor record is kept separate from issue context and organization references.

Ted Cruz is matched through the official sponsor identifier. No approved organization subject-reference relationship is present for this bill.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: Sponsor identity is a formal field in the official bill record. Issue placement is a reviewed title, policy-area, or subject classification. An organization link is shown only when an approved subject-reference record exists, and that contextual relationship remains distinct from sponsorship and does not prove support, opposition, contact, coordination, or effect.

Scope: S 933, captured 2025-03-11 through 2026-03-04, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for S 933.

Method: bill-connection-class-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

The captured Congress.gov action history classifies S 933 at the committee action stage.

As of 2026-03-04, the captured official action history reaches committee action. Latest recorded action: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. 3 official action rows are retained for verification.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: Classify only explicit procedural terms in the captured Congress.gov action text, using the furthest documented stage and making no prediction about later action. The classification reports the furthest supported procedural point in the captured history; it does not predict a next action, measure political momentum beyond that history, or treat referral, reporting, or one-chamber passage as enactment.

Scope: S 933, captured 2025-03-11 through 2026-03-04, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for S 933.

Method: bill-status-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Show 1 additional reviewed finding
Reported in the recordHigh confidence

S 933's issue relevance comes from its official title and policy area.

Official policy area: Science, Technology, Communications. 32 legislative subjects are retained. Reviewed browsing classification: issue-defense-aerospace.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: The conclusion stays with fields contained in the reviewed Congress.gov resources and the explicit editorial mapping shown on the page. The mapping supports issue navigation and procedural understanding; it does not turn title or subject overlap into a lobbying position, policy evaluation, or causal relationship.

Scope: S 933, captured 2025-03-11 through 2026-03-04, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for S 933.

Method: bill-issue-relevance-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Focused starting collection

Why this is in the initial collection

S. 933 provides a Senate science-policy example with a direct sponsor relationship and committee setting that align around NASA and space authorization. It broadens the bill roster beyond defense, health, and data policy while showing a procedural stage between referral and chamber passage. The measure's value here comes from the clarity of those official records, not from any ranking of legislation or forecast of its prospects.

What this edition covers: The profile presents the captured Congress.gov title, science and technology policy area, sponsor, committee records, subjects, and actions through the committee decision.

Questions this page helps answer

  • What is the NASA measure about?
  • What did the committee record?
  • Why is Ted Cruz directly connected?

Evidence paths kept distinct

Direct and contextual connections

Sponsorship is a direct official relationship. Issue and organization links identify the narrower subject basis that makes each browsing path useful.

Verified relationshipDirect sponsor record

See Ted Cruz’s reviewed official profile

Why connected: The Congress.gov bill record’s sponsor identifier matches this approved public-official profile.

Sponsorship documents who introduced the measure. It does not create an organization relationship or establish the bill’s merit, effect, or prospects.

Context onlySubject context

Compare the bill with Defense and Aerospace Policy

Why connected: Reviewed classification based on the official bill title, policy area, and aerospace-related legislative subjects; it does not state a position on the bill.

This title, policy-area, or subject overlap explains the browsing path. It does not establish lobbying activity, a policy position, or causation.

No organization relationship has passed review for this bill. None is added from a shared topic, date, name, sponsor, or committee alone.

Legislative record

Current status in the captured official record

As of 2026-03-04, the captured official action history reaches committee action. Latest recorded action: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

The committee record contains an action beyond referral, but the bill has not necessarily been reported or passed.

  1. IntroducedRecordedA bill record was created in its originating chamber.
  2. Referral / committeeCurrent captured stageReferral, committee work, or reporting appears in the record.
  3. Passed one chamberNot reached in captured recordEither the House or Senate recorded passage.
  4. Passed both chambersNot reached in captured recordBoth chambers recorded passage of the measure.
  5. Presidential actionNot reached in captured recordThe measure reached the President.
  6. Became lawNot reached in captured recordThe official history records enactment.

How status is determined: Classify only explicit procedural terms in the captured Congress.gov action text, using the furthest documented stage and making no prediction about later action. Reviewed Sep 4, 2026.

Key actions for understanding the bill’s path

The captured record supports 3 distinct milestones selected for a quick reading. When fewer than three distinct milestones exist, the page shows only the supported actions rather than repeating or inventing an event.

  1. Introduced

    Bill introduced

  2. Referral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

  3. Committee action

    Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

This is a selected procedural chronology, not every vote, amendment, motion, communication, or administrative action. Use the official all-actions link for the complete captured category.

How the key actions were selected

From the complete captured Congress.gov history, show up to five novice-useful milestones: introduction, the first referral, a committee or report milestone, one passage event per chamber, presidential or enactment action, and the latest action when distinct. Exact duplicates are removed.

Legislative record

Official bill facts and complete captured detail

The most useful facts stay visible. Long action, subject, committee, and source lists remain available in the disclosures below.

Official title
NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2025
Congress
119
Bill type and number
S 933
Introduced
Mar 11, 2025
Policy area
Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action date
Mar 4, 2026
Cosponsors
6

Latest action: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

The official cosponsor count is a formal record field, not a prediction or a complete measure of support. Individual cosponsor names are not reproduced here.

Show all 3 captured official action rows

Complete captured action history, newest first. Repeated rows are preserved when supplied by the official response.

  1. Committee

    Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

  2. IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

  3. IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

Show all 32 official legislative subjects

Subjects are Congress.gov indexing terms, not Gov Influence claims about policy merit, position, or effect.

  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Advisory bodies
  • Asia
  • Astronomy
  • China
  • Commuting
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Earth sciences
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Employment and training programs
  • Geography and mapping
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Higher education
  • International scientific cooperation
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Photography and imaging
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Public-private cooperation
  • Science and engineering education
  • Scientific communication
  • Space flight and exploration
  • Spacecraft and satellites
  • Technology assessment
  • Technology transfer and commercialization
  • Time and calendar
  • Water quality
  • Water use and supply
Show all 1 captured committee entries

Rows reproduce the captured Congress.gov committee resource. “None listed” describes this response, not every possible committee activity.

Official committee entries
ChamberCommitteeTypeSubcommittees listed
SenateCommerce, Science, and Transportation CommitteeStandingNone listed in captured record
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