Closed record ·Former U.S. Representative ·California ·District 14
Eric Swalwell
- Party
- Democrat
- Left office
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223 votes total · 6 broke with party
- HR 7084Mar 27, 2026Transportation and Public WorksPassed ChamberNay
Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026
House vote · 247-164
Democrats41-164Republicans205-0Independents1-0What this does
This bill lets the President bar foreign vessels from U.S. ports based on where they have already been. It amends Section 70022 of title 46 to create a new class of restricted vessel: one that transited a port, harbor, or marine terminal that at the time was inside a Western Hemisphere country with a U.S. free trade agreement, was reachable only through land owned or controlled by a U.S. person, and had been designated by the President. The President may designate such a facility if the trade partner's government nationalized or expropriated it, or the land providing its exclusive access, while it was owned or controlled by a U.S. person, or took any action with that effect. A facility already the subject of a pending free-trade-agreement arbitration may not be designated on that basis. The President must remove a designation once the country restores the U.S. person's ownership, pays adequate and effective compensation, or the dispute is otherwise resolved. The bill also adds exceptions letting a covered vessel enter during an emergency or when the facility's owner has authorized its transit. The House passed the bill on March 27, 2026.
Single-subject. Every operative clause amends one statute, Section 70022 of title 46, to build a single mechanism: presidential designation of expropriated Western Hemisphere port facilities and the resulting vessel entry restriction. There is no rider and no unrelated section.
- HR 8029Mar 26, 2026AppropriationsBundledPassed ChamberNay
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
House vote · 218-206
Democrats4-206Republicans213-0Independents1-0What this does
The act funds the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Division A provides the component budgets, including $17,727,974,000 for Customs and Border Protection operations and support, $10,036,362,000 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and support, $10,635,434,000 for the Transportation Security Administration, $11,272,401,000 for the Coast Guard, $3,128,304,000 for the Secret Service, $2,218,634,000 for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and $26,367,000,000 for the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund. It also sets policy: $20,000,000 for body-worn cameras on immigration enforcement officers, a bar on any new border-crossing fee at land ports of entry, a rule that members of Congress and senior officials are not exempt from passenger and baggage screening, limits on restraining pregnant women in DHS custody, and protection for congressional access to detention facilities for oversight. Two provisions reach outside DHS: $30,000,000 more for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for a 3.8 percent 2026 pay increase for FAA air traffic controllers that takes effect only if the FAA Administrator finds the operational efficiencies Section 549 requires. Division B ratifies obligations incurred during the appropriations lapse that began on or about February 13, 2026.
The short title, Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, understates the reach. Division A is the full DHS budget with dozens of policy riders, and Division B is a Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act that closes out an appropriations lapse. A single yes also funded items with no homeland-security connection: $30,000,000 for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for FAA air traffic controller raises. Those non-DHS appropriations and the continuing-appropriations division are the coupling points. The text is functionally the same DHS measure as H.R. 7744.
- HR 5103Mar 25, 2026District of ColumbiaPassed ChamberNot voting
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
House vote · 218-206
Democrats5-206Republicans212-0Independents1-0What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior, within 30 days of enactment, to build a program to clean and maintain federal and District of Columbia facilities, monuments, public spaces, sidewalks, parks, and transit areas, including graffiti removal, and to restore monuments and memorials that were damaged, defaced, or removed. It separately creates a District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission in the executive branch, chaired by a senior official the President designates from the Executive Office of the President and staffed by representatives from Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, the U.S. Attorney offices for the District, Maryland, and the Eastern District of Virginia, and the District's Mayor. The Commission is charged with recommending policies that direct the maximum enforcement of Federal immigration law within the District, including redirecting law enforcement resources to apprehend and deport people in the country illegally, monitoring the District's sanctuary-city status, speeding concealed-carry license processing, revising pretrial-detention practices, ending fare evasion on the transit system, and deploying a heavier federal and local law enforcement presence across the National Mall, monuments, and parks. Both the program and the Commission terminate January 2, 2029.
One bill, one subject: the District of Columbia. There are no divisions and a single short title. The two halves point in different directions. The 'Beautiful' half is a cleanup-and-restoration program run by Interior. The 'Safe' half is a federal law-enforcement commission whose charge reaches immigration enforcement, sanctuary-city status, concealed-carry licensing, and pretrial detention. A vote for the title carried the immigration-and-policing commission with it.
- HR 6422Mar 24, 2026Environmental ProtectionPassed ChamberNot voting
American Water Stewardship Act
House vote · 378-32
Democrats201-1Republicans176-31Independents1-0What this does
This bill reauthorizes and extends several EPA geographic water programs under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act through fiscal year 2031, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Long Island Sound program, the Columbia River Basin restoration program, and the National Estuary Program. It reworks the San Francisco Bay program, replacing its grant-only structure with interagency agreements, contracts, and other funding mechanisms, and caps the federal share of a project at 75 percent. It adds Mississippi Sound, Mississippi to the National Estuary Program, but bars EPA from spending fiscal year 2026 estuary funds on it and conditions fiscal year 2027 funds on an appropriations increase of at least $850,000 over fiscal year 2024. It expands the coastal recreation water quality monitoring grant program, reauthorizes it through 2031, and broadens the definition of coastal recreation waters to include river mouths, nearby shallow waters, and waters on beaches. It bars any of these program funds for fiscal years 2026 through 2031 from going to entities domiciled in, or projects conducted with, a foreign country of concern. It directs the Comptroller General to report within two years on the management, progress, and ethics practices of EPA geographic programs.
Every operative section serves one subject: EPA geographic water programs under the Clean Water Act. The reauthorizations, the San Francisco Bay rework, the Mississippi Sound addition, the coastal monitoring expansion, the foreign-country-of-concern funding bar, and the GAO review all govern or oversee these programs. No unrelated rider is attached.
- HR 4638Mar 19, 2026ImmigrationPassed ChamberNot voting
Federal Working Animal Protection Act
House vote · 228-190
Democrats15-190Republicans212-0Independents1-0What this does
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so that a non-citizen convicted of harming animals used in law enforcement is barred from entering the country and can be deported. The trigger is an offense under section 1368 of title 18 of the U.S. Code, which covers harming animals used in law enforcement. The bill adds this ground to both the inadmissibility provisions in section 212(a)(2) and the deportability provisions in section 237(a)(2). It applies to a non-citizen who has been convicted of, admits committing, or admits acts constituting the essential elements of that offense.
One subject. It makes a conviction for harming a law-enforcement animal a ground for both inadmissibility and deportation. The operative text is titled the Federal Working Animal Protection Act, and every section serves that one subject. The title matches the content.
- HR 556Mar 18, 2026Public Lands and Natural ResourcesPassed ChamberNot voting
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
House vote · 215-202
Democrats7-201Republicans208-1What this does
This bill blocks the Interior and Agriculture Departments from banning lead ammunition or fishing tackle on federal land and water open to hunting or fishing. It bars the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service or the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle, or from issuing regulations on the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, on such land or water. Existing waterfowl-hunting lead-shot rules at two specified sections of federal regulation are preserved. A ban or regulation is allowed only for a specific unit of land or water, and only if the Secretary determines from field data at that unit that lead is the primary cause of a wildlife population decline there, and the restriction is consistent with or approved by the relevant state fish and wildlife department. When a Secretary imposes such a unit-specific restriction, the accompanying Federal Register notice must explain how it meets those requirements.
Every provision serves the single subject the title names. The prohibition, the carve-out for existing waterfowl rules, the narrow unit-specific exception, and the Federal Register notice requirement all govern lead ammunition and tackle on federal hunting and fishing land. No unrelated matter is attached.
- HR 1958Mar 18, 2026ImmigrationPassed ChamberNot voting
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
House vote · 231-186
Democrats20-186Republicans211-0What this does
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so that a non-citizen convicted of certain fraud offenses is barred from entering the country and can be deported. It adds the trigger to both the inadmissibility grounds in section 212(a)(2) and the deportability grounds in section 237(a)(2). The covered offenses include SNAP benefit fraud, Social Security number and card fraud, theft or bribery involving programs that receive federal funds, identification-document fraud, major fraud against the United States, mail and related fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. It also reaches any other offense that involves defrauding the government or the unlawful receipt of a federal, state, or local public benefit, plus conspiracy to commit any of the listed offenses. The bar applies to a non-citizen who has been convicted of, admits committing, or admits acts constituting the essential elements of these offenses. A non-citizen who falls under the new provisions is made ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws.
Every operative section serves one subject. It makes fraud against the government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits a ground for both inadmissibility and deportation, then closes off immigration relief for anyone caught by those grounds. The title matches the content.
- HJRES 139Mar 18, 2026Economics and Public FinanceFailedNot voting
Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
House vote · 211-207
Democrats1-207Republicans210-0Official title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government.
What this does
This joint resolution would propose a constitutional amendment capping total federal expenditures for a year at the average annual receipts collected in the three prior years, adjusted for changes in the citizen population and for inflation, with debt payments excluded from expenditures and borrowing excluded from receipts. Congress could exceed the cap only by a two-thirds roll-call vote of each House, or by a roll-call vote in any year a declaration of war is in effect. Any new tax or increase in a tax rate would require approval by two-thirds of the whole number of each House. The amendment would take effect in the fifth year after ratification and would become part of the Constitution only when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. It did not pass the House (vote 211-207).
A single-subject joint resolution proposing one constitutional amendment on federal budgeting. No unrelated provisions are attached.
- HR 4294Mar 17, 2026Public Lands and Natural ResourcesPassed ChamberNot voting
MAWS Act of 2026
House vote · 320-66
Democrats192-1Republicans128-65What this does
This bill directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through NOAA, to run a pilot program that pays to remove blue catfish, an invasive species, from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Under the program the Secretary enters into cooperative agreements with companies that make pet food, animal feed, or aquaculture feed, and those companies use the awarded money to buy blue catfish from local watermen and seafood processors. The Secretary sets a minimum price per pound the fish must be bought for, and companies may spend up to 15 percent of their award to cover transporting the fish to processing facilities. The Secretary must also build an estimate of how many blue catfish are in the watershed, publish it annually through fiscal year 2032, and report the program's results to Congress after it ends. The pilot runs for two years once the first abundance estimate is published and program guidance is issued.
The bill addresses a single subject. Every operative provision amends one statute, Section 307 of the NOAA Authorization Act of 1992, to create and govern the blue catfish pilot program.
- S 3971Mar 17, 2026CommerceBecame LawNot voting
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
House vote · 345-41
Democrats192-1Republicans153-40What this does
This bill keeps the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs alive and adds security screening and new funding tracks. It extends the programs' authorization from September 30, 2025 to September 30, 2031, and pushes the same 2031 date across a long list of connected pilot programs and deadlines. On security, it directs agencies to evaluate whether a small business applicant presents a risk, including by coordinating with the intelligence community, and it makes a business a denial candidate if it connects to an entity on any of eight named government lists, including the UFLPA Entity List, the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List, the Section 889 Prohibition List, and the list of Chinese military companies under section 1260H. Denied applicants must be told of the determination and its basis where national security permits, and a denial does not bar them from a future cycle. It creates a strategic breakthrough Phase II funding track: agencies with a required SBIR expenditure above $100,000,000 may set aside up to 0.50 percent of their SBIR allocation and award up to $30,000,000 to a single small business, which must have at least one prior Phase II award and match the money at 100 percent from new private or non-SBIR government capital. It caps how many proposals a business may submit each year, with a waiver only for time-sensitive topics and only up to 5 percent of topics. It requires new acquisition workforce training on Phase III awards, simplified Phase III contracting procedures and model contracts, and new data fields tracking award types in the SBIR database and the Federal Procurement Data System. It raises the Phase I technical assistance cap to $6,500 and the Phase II cap to $50,000 per project, lets awardees choose their assistance provider, adds cybersecurity assistance and I-Corps participation, and extends the GAO study deadline in the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022 from 3 years to 8 years.
The title says the bill extends the SBIR and STTR programs and is for other purposes. Every section amends section 9 of the Small Business Act or a directly connected SBIR or STTR authority. The security screening, the strategic breakthrough funding, the proposal caps, the Phase III training, and the data collection all operate on the same two programs the title names. The reach is broad but the subject is single.
- HR 7744Mar 5, 2026AppropriationsBundledPassed ChamberNay
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
House vote · 221-209
Democrats4-209Republicans217-0What this does
The bill funds the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Division A provides the component budgets, including $17,727,974,000 for Customs and Border Protection operations and support, $10,036,362,000 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and support, $10,635,434,000 for the Transportation Security Administration, $11,272,401,000 for the Coast Guard, $3,128,304,000 for the Secret Service, $2,218,634,000 for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and $26,367,000,000 for the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund. It also sets policy: $20,000,000 for body-worn cameras on immigration enforcement officers, a bar on any new border-crossing fee at land ports of entry, a rule that members of Congress and senior officials are not exempt from passenger and baggage screening, limits on restraining pregnant women in DHS custody, and protection for congressional access to detention facilities for oversight. Two provisions reach outside DHS: $30,000,000 more for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for a 3.8 percent 2026 pay increase for FAA air traffic controllers that takes effect only if the FAA Administrator finds the operational efficiencies Section 549 requires. Division B ratifies obligations incurred during the appropriations lapse that began on or about February 13, 2026.
The measure carries two divisions. Division A is the DHS budget with dozens of general-provision riders; Division B is a Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act that closes out an appropriations lapse. A single yes also funded items with no homeland-security connection: $30,000,000 for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for FAA air traffic controller raises. The title names only DHS; the added Supreme Court and FAA money and the continuing-appropriations division are the coupling points.
- HCONRES 38Mar 5, 2026International AffairsFailedYea
Directing Removal of US Forces from Hostilities with Iran
House vote · 212-219
Democrats210-4Republicans2-215Official title: Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What this does
This concurrent resolution would direct the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces in hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force against Iran. The resolution states that Congress has not declared war or provided specific statutory authorization for such hostilities. It provides that nothing in it prevents the United States from defending against imminent attack, that nothing in it disrupts intelligence, counterintelligence, or investigative activities relating to threats in or from Iran, and that, consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, nothing in it authorizes the use of military force. It did not pass the House (vote 212-219).
A single-subject concurrent resolution directing removal of forces from one theater. The findings and rules of construction all serve that single direction.
- S 723Mar 4, 2026Native AmericansBecame LawYea
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
House vote · 384-40
Democrats208-1Republicans176-39What this does
This bill sets legal deadlines for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process mortgages on Indian trust land. After a lender submits a residential leasehold, business leasehold, or land mortgage or a right-of-way document, the applicable Bureau office must finish a preliminary completeness review within 10 calendar days. It must then approve or disapprove a leasehold mortgage within 20 calendar days, and a land mortgage or right-of-way document within 30 calendar days, after receiving complete paperwork. The Bureau must complete a certified title status report within 10 days of approval, or within 14 days of a request for a first report. If the Bureau misses a deadline it must immediately notify the borrower and lender, and it must answer inquiries within 2 calendar days. Congress also grants relevant federal agencies and Indian Tribes read-only access to land documents in the Bureau's Trust Asset and Accounting Management System. The Director must report to Congress each year on whether deadlines were met, and the GAO must study digitizing tribal records within one year. The bill creates a Realty Ombudsman inside the Bureau's Division of Real Estate Services, reporting to the Secretary of the Interior, to police the deadlines and field complaints.
Single-subject. All four sections serve one function: Bureau of Indian Affairs processing of mortgages and rights-of-way on Indian trust land. The definitions (Sec. 2), the processing deadlines and reporting (Sec. 3), and the Realty Ombudsman (Sec. 4) all attach to that one mortgage-processing purpose. The text carries no unrelated rider, so a single yes vote carried one thing.
- HR 6472Mar 4, 2026EducationPassed ChamberYea
Territorial Student Access to Higher Education Act
House vote · 351-72
Democrats208-1Republicans143-71What this does
This bill bars public colleges from charging certain territorial residents out-of-state tuition. It amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add a new section 135A. Under that section, any public institution that receives assistance under the Act may not charge a covered individual tuition or fees higher than the rate it charges residents of the State where the institution is located. A covered individual is a resident of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, or the United States Virgin Islands who is also a national of the United States. The bill enforces this by adding the requirement to the program participation agreement that institutions sign to receive federal student aid. The House passed the bill on March 4, 2026.
Single-subject. Both operative sections serve one purpose: setting in-state tuition rates for territorial residents. Section 2(a) creates the tuition cap and section 2(b) adds a conforming enforcement clause to the program participation agreement. The "and for other purposes" language in the bill's description resolves only to that germane enforcement machinery. No unrelated rider is present.
- HR 4758Feb 25, 2026EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
Homeowner Energy Freedom Act
House vote · 210-199
Democrats0-198Republicans210-1What this does
Repeals three home-energy programs created by the 2022 reconciliation law (Public Law 117-169). Section 2 strikes the high-efficiency electric home rebate program (section 50122), the state-based home energy efficiency contractor training grants (section 50123), and assistance for states and localities to adopt the latest and zero-energy building codes (section 50131). It rescinds any unobligated balances remaining under sections 50122 and 50131, and removes the cross-reference to the rebate program from the related section 50121(c)(7).
Single subject. Every provision repeals or cleans up references to the same set of home-electrification and building-code programs in Public Law 117-169. The title matches the content.
- HR 6329Feb 24, 2026Government Operations and PoliticsPassed ChamberYea
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
House vote · 362-1
Democrats176-1Republicans186-0What this does
This bill adds a new section to title 44 of the U.S. Code requiring federal agencies to rely on quality information when they make rules and guidance. Within one year of enactment, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget must update the government-wide guidelines under the Information Quality Act to better ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of influential information or evidence used to develop rules and guidance or to inform the public about them, and must post the updated guidelines online. Within a year after that, each covered agency must update and publish its own information-quality guidelines, keep available the mechanisms for the public to seek correction of flawed influential information, and report on complaints about accuracy. On public disclosure, the Director must issue guidance directing agencies to place in the rulemaking docket or administrative record the critical factual material the agency relied on, plus citations to other sources used. When an agency uses notice-and-comment rulemaking, it must give the public a chance to comment on that critical factual material. Agencies may withhold material that is protected from disclosure by other law, but must explain in the record why it cannot be released. Critical factual material is generally to be provided as an open government data asset. The bill authorizes no additional funds to carry it out.
One subject throughout. Every section builds the same regime for the quality and disclosure of the information agencies use in rulemaking. The title matches the content, and the closing section confirms no new money is authorized.
- HR 4626Feb 24, 2026EnergyPassed ChamberNay
Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act
House vote · 217-190
Democrats7-190Republicans210-0What this does
The bill rewrites how the Department of Energy may set appliance energy conservation standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, raising the bar the Secretary must clear before issuing any new or amended standard. The Secretary may not adopt a standard unless it is technologically feasible and economically justified, and a standard counts as economically justified only if the energy and water savings a consumer earns in the first three years exceed any increase in purchase, installation, maintenance, disposal, and replacement costs. A standard must also achieve at least a 0.3 quad reduction in site energy over 30 years or at least a 10 percent cut in the product's energy or water use. In weighing economic justification the Secretary must prioritize consumers, may not count estimates of the social costs or benefits of greenhouse gas emissions, and must run a quantitative economic analysis with a 60-day comment period. Before setting a standard the Secretary must publicly disclose any meeting held in the prior five years with entities that have ties to the People's Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, have advocated to limit energy use, and have sought or received federal funds. The bill lets petitioners ask DOE to revoke standards, not just amend them, and requires action within 180 days on a granted revocation petition. It bars any new or amended standard for distribution transformers going forward, and separately confirms the Secretary's authority to set design and performance standards for clothes washers and dishwashers.
Single subject, one statute, but broader than the short title signals. The Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act touches only the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, yet beyond cost-benefit tests it also carries a mandatory disclosure of meetings with China-tied entities, a bar on counting the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions, and a freeze on distribution transformer standards. These ride inside the energy-standards subject rather than as separate divisions.
- HR 2189Feb 12, 2026Crime and Law EnforcementPassed ChamberNot voting
Less-Lethal Devices Firearms Modernization
House vote · 233-185
Democrats22-184Republicans211-1Official title: To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
What this does
This bill exempts less-than-lethal projectile devices from federal firearms law, defining them in the Gun Control Act and carving them out of the criminal code, the firearms excise tax, and the National Firearms Act.
Single-subject. Both titles do one thing: exempt less-than-lethal projectile devices from federal firearms law. Title I amends the criminal firearms code (18 U.S.C. 921), and Title II amends the tax code and the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. 4181/4182 and 5845). A single yes carried only the less-than-lethal carve-out across the statutes where these devices are regulated. No unrelated rider appears in the text.
- S 1383Feb 11, 2026ElectionsBundledPassed ChamberNay
SAVE Act via Senate Substitute
House vote · 218-213
Democrats1-213Republicans217-0Official title: Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025
What this does
The House took a Senate bill titled to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, struck every word after the enacting clause, and replaced it with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. What passed has nothing to do with veterans. It rewrites federal voter registration law. The bill bars a state from accepting a voter registration application for a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of United States citizenship. Documentary proof means a REAL ID that indicates citizenship, a United States passport, a military identification card paired with a service record showing a United States birthplace, a government photo ID showing a United States birthplace, or another government photo ID presented together with a supporting document such as a certified birth certificate, a naturalization or citizenship certificate, or a consular report of birth abroad. Applicants who register by mail must present that proof in person to an election official by the state's registration deadline. States must also set up a process letting an applicant who cannot produce documentary proof sign an attestation under penalty of perjury and submit other evidence of citizenship for an official to weigh. States must run their voter lists against the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE system to find and remove noncitizens, after notice and a chance to provide proof. The Secretary of Homeland Security must investigate whether to begin removal proceedings against any noncitizen found unlawfully registered. Absent uniformed services voters are exempt. The bill adds two new federal election crimes to the National Voter Registration Act. One reaches an election official who registers an applicant without documentary proof of citizenship. The other reaches an executive branch officer or employee who gives material assistance to a noncitizen attempting to register or vote. It also opens officials to private lawsuits for registering an applicant who did not present proof. A second half requires photo identification to cast a ballot. In-person voters must present a valid physical photo ID or cast a provisional ballot that counts only if they produce the ID within three days, or sign an affidavit of a religious objection to being photographed. Voters casting a ballot other than in person must include a copy of a photo ID, or the last four digits of their Social Security number with an affidavit that they could not obtain one. Valid IDs are a state driver's license, a state identification card, a United States passport, a military ID, or a tribal identification card.
A member could not vote for this bill without voting for the SAVE America Act, because the Senate veterans-committee text was deleted in full and this was inserted in its place. The title on the vehicle names a Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access. The operative text establishes no such committee. It is voter registration and voter identification law from the first section to the last. The bill also couples two separate mandates that a member must accept together: documentary proof of citizenship to register, and photo identification to cast a ballot.
- HR 261Feb 11, 2026Public Lands and Natural ResourcesPassed ChamberNay
Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
House vote · 218-212
Democrats3-211Republicans215-1What this does
Amends the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to bar the Secretary of Commerce from prohibiting, or requiring any permit or other authorization for, the installation, continued presence, operation, maintenance, repair, or recovery of undersea fiber optic cables in a national marine sanctuary when a Federal or State agency has already issued a license, lease, or permit for that activity and it remains in effect. The bar applies notwithstanding any other provision of the Act. The bill preserves existing interagency-cooperation requirements under section 304(d) of the Act for the covered cable activities. It also strikes two paragraphs from the sanctuary special-use-permit provision in section 310(c) and renumbers the remainder.
Single subject. Both operative sections concern undersea fiber optic cables and sanctuary permitting under the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. The title matches the content.