119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Feb 26, 2026
Chesapeake WATERS Act
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Latest action (Feb 26, 2026): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Environmental Protection
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Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in Senate
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2 citations.
NATURE CONSERVANCY · lobbying firm or registrant: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Clean Air and Water (quality)
$460,000
Spent on own lobbying
…rican Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act (H.R.6893/S.3939) Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Act of 2025 (H.R.284/S.528) Ohio River Restoration Program Act (H.R.5966/S.3796) Water Resources Development Act of…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
NATURE CONSERVANCY · lobbying firm or registrant: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 21, 2026 · issue area: Clean Air and Water (quality)
$640,000
Spent on own lobbying
…oundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act (S.1366) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act (H.R.6893/S.3939) Cooperative Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (H.R.7978/S.4041) Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act (H.R.1809/S.2878) Grea…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing