Fight to continue reducing costs for families, protect the Great Lakes, combat PFAS contamination, expand domestic manufacturing and workforce development, support Michigan agriculture, and strengthen national security.
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
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I’ll be fighting to continue reducing costs for families, protecting the Great Lakes, combating PFAS contamination, expanding domestic manufacturing and workforce development, supporting Michigan agriculture and strengthening our national security.
Peters listed several priorities he said he would fight for through the appropriations process, including costs, Great Lakes protection, PFAS, manufacturing, workforce development, agriculture, and national security.
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Peters said he helped make the Inflation Reduction Act law, with provisions to lower health and prescription drug costs and encourage clean energy manufacturing.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Supports the family-cost and domestic-manufacturing portions of the promise through enacted legislation during Peters' 2021-2027 Senate term, though broad cost outcomes remain partly ongoing.
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Peters' office says he helped enact the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including Great Lakes investments and support for communities facing shoreline erosion and flooding.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shows concrete enacted action on protecting the Great Lakes and related resilience needs in Michigan during the relevant Senate term.
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Congress.gov lists Peters as sponsor of S.231, which became Public Law 117-248 and requires DHS guidance to reduce PFAS exposure and releases.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Directly supports the PFAS portion: Peters sponsored a PFAS bill that became law in the same Senate term.
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Peters' office reported Senate passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, citing domestic semiconductor manufacturing, Michigan auto-sector supply chains, jobs, and national security.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Supports the domestic manufacturing, workforce/economic development, and national-security portions through a major bill Peters backed that later became law.
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Peters helped advance FY2024 agriculture appropriations with provisions for Michigan producers, specialty crop pests, agricultural PFAS research, tart cherry labeling, and crop-production technology.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shows concrete advocacy for Michigan agriculture, but the cited action was committee advancement rather than final enactment, so it supports partial fulfillment.
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Peters' office says a provision he authored was signed into law requiring critical infrastructure cyberattack and ransomware-payment reporting to CISA.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Supports the national-security portion through enacted cybersecurity legislation aimed at defending critical infrastructure from foreign and criminal threats.
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Latest Action: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Peters' Regional Great Lakes Partnership Act advanced out of committee, showing current effort on Great Lakes protection but not final enactment.
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demanding that they preserve all records related to the nation's counterterrorism efforts.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters took oversight action tied to national security during the lookback window, but the letters themselves do not document enacted policy or a completed remedy.
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federal funding he secured will help clean up toxic PFAS contamination on the property.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is a concrete same-term PFAS-related funding delivery for cleanup at Bay City Fire Department Station #2, within the lookback window.
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the $998,000 in federal funding he secured to create the Automation Lab
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters' office documented federal funding for a workforce development and advanced manufacturing training facility in Michigan during the same Senate term.
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$22.7 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) funding he secured
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The FishPass funding is a concrete Great Lakes protection investment, though the project was described as nearing completion rather than fully open.
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cyber workforce development programs like Ferris State's to strengthen U.S. national security
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters highlighted cybersecurity workforce development as a national-security priority in the lookback window, but the event alone documents advocacy rather than a newly enacted measure.
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S. 5555. A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to initiate interim remedial actions
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official Congressional Record entry shows Peters introduced S.5555, a PFAS remedial-action bill, and it was referred to Armed Services; this is new same-term effort, not enactment.
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would require DOD to initiate PFAS remedial actions at no fewer than 100 military installations within the next two years
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters’ office describes the PFAS RAPID Response Act as requiring interim cleanup actions at at least 100 DOD installations; this documents effort against PFAS contamination, while enactment remains unresolved.
To terminate and refund certain duties imposed by the President, and for other purposes.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo shows Peters as a cosponsor of S.5390, a tariff-duty termination and refund bill referred to Finance; this is a cost-reduction effort without enactment in the record.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo lists Peters among cosponsors of S.4429, reported in the Senate on September 22, 2026; the bill targets connected-vehicle risks tied to foreign adversaries, supporting national-security and auto-sector goals but not final delivery.
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Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Commerce Committee’s legislation page records Peters’ Regional Great Lakes Partnership Act advancing favorably from committee; this is concrete Great Lakes protection effort, short of enactment.
This bill includes funding for APHIS, which helps farmers combat specialty crop pests.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Peters’ office documented Agriculture Appropriations Committee action supporting Michigan agriculture, including APHIS funding for specialty crop pests; this predates the lookback but adds same-term agriculture effort, not final enactment.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph $475,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2030.”. Passed the Senate September 29, 2026.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo shows Peters' Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2026 passed the Senate and would authorize $475 million annually through FY2030; it is a significant Great Lakes protection step but not final enactment.
Bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to help commercial satellite owners and operators defend against growing cybersecurity threats has passed in the Senate.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Peters' office reports Senate passage of his bipartisan Satellite Cybersecurity Act, supporting the national-security portion of the commitment, though the bill still needed House action.
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fully restore staffing and operations at USCG Station Saginaw River in Essexville
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters documented a Coast Guard decision to restore staffing and operations at a Michigan Great Lakes station after advocacy; because restoration appears scheduled rather than complete, it is partial delivery.
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His message comes as the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to delay cleaning up PFAS contamination at military sites in Michigan.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters' office identifies continuing DOD delays in PFAS cleanup at Michigan military sites, showing the PFAS contamination commitment remains unresolved despite advocacy.
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consider and we pass this bill S. 5390, which I saw for the first time only minutes ago
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Congressional Record shows a floor exchange over immediate passage of S.5390, the tariff-refund bill Peters cosponsored to reduce tariff costs; the objection left the cost-reduction effort unresolved.
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The bipartisan bill aims to strengthen and expand this critical workforce, improving railway safety in Michigan and across the country.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Peters introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at strengthening a federal safety workforce, documenting same-term workforce-related effort but not enactment.