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Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022
Emergency supplemental appropriations providing $61B in Ukraine assistance
National Defense Authorization Act with Ukraine security assistance provisions
About
Elected: 2014 (6th term)
- Background: Marine Corps veteran, former firefighter, small business owner from Murphysboro.
- Committees: Chair, Veterans' Affairs; Transportation and Infrastructure; Agriculture
- District: Southern Illinois, including Carbondale, Belleville, and the rural counties along the Mississippi River.
- Ukrainian American community: Small in downstate Illinois but growing through Chicago-area refugee resettlement programs extending southward.
Bio Bost is a traditional conservative Republican aligned with the party's rural agricultural base. He brings uniformed military credibility and chairmanship of a major committee with direct relevance to Ukraine. He has cultivated a reputation as a workhorse rather than a headline-seeker, focused on veteran health care and infrastructure.
Ukraine Record
- Has voted for Ukraine aid, broadly supportive of continued assistance.
- His chairmanship of Veterans' Affairs gives him unique institutional voice.
Advocacy Insight
- Ask them to: Use his Veterans' Affairs chair platform to advance Ukrainian veteran rehabilitation, prosthetics cooperation, and PTSD treatment partnerships between U.S. VA facilities and Ukrainian military hospitals.
- Why it works with them: Marine veteran credibility. Warrior-to-warrior solidarity. Lessons from U.S. combat veterans applied to Ukrainian amputees and wounded.
- Your connection: If you are an Illinois veteran, a military family, or live near Scott Air Force Base, say so.
- Avoid: Leading with partisan criticism of Republican isolationists.
Without this bill, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who fled the war and built lives in the U.S. face deportation back to an active war zone. This is the single most urgent protection for Ukrainians in America.
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Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME], a constituent from [YOUR CITY/ZIP]. I'm calling to urge Representative [REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME] to cosponsor H.R. 3104, the Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fled Russia's invasion and are now living in the U.S. on temporary status. They cannot safely return to an active war zone. H.R. 3104 gives them a path to permanent residency. It's bipartisan, it's targeted, and it's the right thing to do. Will Representative [REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME] cosponsor H.R. 3104? Thank you.
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Bills to Cosponsor
17 bills remainingUkrainian Adjustment Act of 2025
Grants lawful permanent residency to Ukrainians who were paroled into the U.
Discharge Petition 8: Secure a Vote H.R. 2913
Discharge Petition No.
Ukraine Support Act
The most sweeping Ukraine support bill of the 119th Congress: combines military aid, sanctions, lend-lease, intelligence sharing, and trade tools into a single package spanning 9 committee jurisdictions.
Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
Imposes severe penalties on Russia if the President determines Russia refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine, violates a negotiated peace, initiates another invasion, or seeks to overthrow the Ukrainian government.
PEACE Act of 2025
Prohibits the President from entering into or implementing any peace agreement with Russia regarding Ukraine unless the agreement meets specific conditions protecting Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.