Closed record ·Former U.S. Representative ·New Jersey ·District 11
Mikie Sherrill
- Party
- Democrat
- Left office
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151 votes total · 7 broke with party
- HR 3109Nov 20, 2025EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
REFINER Act
House vote · 230-176
Democrats25-176Republicans205-0What this does
Directs the Secretary of Energy to have the National Petroleum Council prepare and publish a report on U.S. petrochemical refineries. Within 90 days of enactment, the Council must submit to the Secretary and Congress a report examining the refineries' role in energy security and fuel affordability, projecting their capacity and expansion opportunities and risks, assessing federal or state actions that have contributed to declining refining capacity, and offering recommendations to increase capacity. The report must be made publicly available. The bill creates a study and reporting requirement and does not change any regulation or refinery operation.
Single subject. The bill's one operative section commissions a single report on petrochemical refineries. The title matches the operative text.
- HR 1949Nov 20, 2025EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025
House vote · 217-188
Democrats11-188Republicans206-0What this does
The bill strips out the separate federal review that natural gas exports and imports now go through and declares them to be in the public interest by law. It amends section 3 of the Natural Gas Act by striking subsections (a) through (c) and giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive authority to approve or deny applications for siting, construction, expansion, or operation of any facility to export natural gas from or import natural gas to the United States, including LNG terminals. In deciding those applications, the Commission is directed to deem the exportation or importation of natural gas to be consistent with the public interest, removing the case-by-case public interest determination that currently applies. The bill preserves the President's authority under the Constitution, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the Trading With the Enemy Act, and any other sanctions law to prohibit imports or exports, including to countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.
One subject: federal authorization of natural gas imports and exports. A single yes carries the whole change, moving approval authority to FERC and deeming the trade in the public interest, with the sanctions carve-out as the only limit. Nothing unrelated is attached.
- HR 5107Nov 19, 2025Crime and Law EnforcementPassed ChamberNot voting
Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC Act of 2025
House vote · 233-190
Democrats20-190Republicans213-0What this does
Congress moves to repeal a District of Columbia policing law. The bill strikes the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022, which the DC Council enacted. It revives any prior law that the DC Act had amended or repealed, as if that Act had never passed. Two parts survive: the bill exempts subtitle S and subtitle A of title I of the DC Act, which stay in effect. Everything else in the DC Act falls. The House passed it November 19, 2025.
Single-subject. The operative text is one repeal section acting on one named DC law, plus a short title. There is no rider, division, or unrelated provision. The two carve-outs in section 2(b) are exceptions to the same repeal, not separate subjects.
- HR 4058Nov 19, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
House vote · 380-45
Democrats210-0Republicans170-45What this does
This bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency to do more to help state and local governments apply for two major homeland security grant programs. It amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the FEMA Administrator to provide ongoing outreach, education, and technical assistance to applicants for the Urban Area Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program before, during, and after grants are awarded. As part of that support, the agency must conduct annual surveys of state, local, Tribal, and territorial stakeholders and report how their feedback shaped later grant announcements. The bill also orders two oversight reports: one from the Comptroller General within two years reviewing how well the outreach is working, and one from the FEMA Administrator within three years describing the actions the agency took.
Every provision concerns one subject: improving FEMA's outreach and technical assistance for the Urban Area Security Initiative and the State Homeland Security Grant Program, plus reports about that same outreach. It reads cleanly as a single measure.
- HR 6019Nov 19, 2025CongressPassed ChamberNot voting
Senate Data Disclosure Notification Repeal
House vote · 426-0
Democrats210-0Republicans216-0Official title: To repeal certain provisions relating to notification to Senate offices regarding legal process on disclosure of Senate data, and for other purposes.
What this does
Repeals Section 213 of title II of division C of the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, along with the amendments that section made, giving them no force or effect. Section 213 had established notification requirements to Senate offices when legal process sought disclosure of Senate data; the repeal removes those requirements.
One operative section repealing a single provision. Single subject.
- HR 5214Nov 19, 2025Crime and Law EnforcementPassed ChamberNot voting
District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
House vote · 237-179
Democrats28-179Republicans209-0What this does
This bill makes detention and cash bail mandatory for a range of offenses in the District of Columbia. A judicial officer must order pretrial detention for anyone charged with a crime of violence or a dangerous crime, and post-conviction detention for anyone convicted of one. It broadens the definitions of dangerous crime and crime of violence so that burglary and robbery count when they are first-degree, attempted first-degree, or committed with a dangerous weapon. It also creates a new category of public safety or order crime, covering failure to appear, obstruction of justice, fleeing a law enforcement officer, rioting, inciting a riot, destruction of property, stalking, lesser burglary or robbery, and prior convictions for such offenses, and requires that a person charged with one be released only on a secured appearance bond, meaning cash or property posted as bail. The bill defines secured appearance bond, adds procedures for a surety to arrest and surrender a released person, and applies to offenses charged 30 days or more after enactment.
Single subject: DC pretrial detention and bail, carried through coordinated amendments to the DC Code's release and detention sections. The title matches the operative text and nothing off-subject rides along.
- HJRES 131Nov 18, 2025EnergyBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the BLM Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Plan
House vote · 217-209
Democrats3-208Republicans214-1Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision.
What this does
This resolution overturns the Bureau of Land Management's Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision, issued December 9, 2024. Using the Congressional Review Act, it declares the record of decision has no force or effect, undoing BLM's chosen framework for oil and gas leasing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain. The resolution rests on a Government Accountability Office opinion, dated August 25, 2025 and printed in the Congressional Record, that treats the record of decision as a rule subject to the Act.
Single subject. The resolution nullifies one named BLM leasing decision and contains nothing else.
- HJRES 130Nov 18, 2025Public Lands and Natural ResourcesBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the BLM Buffalo Resource Plan
House vote · 214-212
Democrats0-211Republicans214-1Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment.
What this does
This resolution overturns a Bureau of Land Management rule under the Congressional Review Act, so the rule has no force or effect. The targeted rule is the Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, issued November 20, 2024, which governs land-use management for that BLM field office in Wyoming. The resolution cites a September 18, 2025 Government Accountability Office opinion concluding the record of decision qualifies as a rule subject to the Congressional Review Act. Nullifying the plan amendment leaves the prior management plan in place; under the Act, BLM may not reissue a substantially similar rule without new authorization from Congress.
Single subject. A one-sentence Congressional Review Act disapproval of one BLM rule, with no other provisions.
- HR 4405Nov 18, 2025Crime and Law EnforcementBecame LawNot voting
Epstein Files Transparency Act
House vote · 427-1
Democrats211-0Republicans216-1What this does
This bill orders the Department of Justice to release its Jeffrey Epstein records. Within 30 days of enactment, the Attorney General must post, in a searchable and downloadable format, all unclassified records, communications, and investigative materials the department holds on Epstein, including files from the FBI and United States Attorneys' Offices. The mandate spans nine categories, among them the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell files, flight and travel logs, people and entities tied to his networks, immunity and non-prosecution deals, internal DOJ communications about charging decisions, records of any destruction or concealment of evidence, and records of his detention and death. The bill bars withholding, delay, or redaction on grounds of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity to any official, public figure, or foreign dignitary. It still permits narrow redactions for victims' private information, child sexual abuse material, material that would jeopardize an active investigation, images of death or abuse, and properly classified national-security information, and every redaction must carry a written justification published in the Federal Register and sent to Congress. Within 15 days of finishing the release, the Attorney General must report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and name the government officials and politically exposed persons who appear in the materials.
Single-subject. Every section of this Act serves one operative purpose: compelling the public release of DOJ records relating to Jeffrey Epstein. There are no divisions and no unrelated riders. A yes vote carried only the Epstein-records release and its accompanying withholding rules, declassification duty, and report to Congress.
- SJRES 80Nov 18, 2025Public Lands and Natural ResourcesBecame LawNot voting
Overturning the BLM Alaska Petroleum Reserve Plan
House vote · 216-209
Democrats3-208Republicans213-1Official title: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision".
What this does
Congress voids a Bureau of Land Management decision governing the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Using the Congressional Review Act, the resolution disapproves the BLM's National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision, issued April 25, 2022, and provides that the rule shall have no force or effect. The resolution rests on a Government Accountability Office opinion dated July 24, 2025 that treats the record of decision as a rule subject to the Congressional Review Act.
Single subject. One Congressional Review Act disapproval of one named BLM record of decision, with no additional provisions.
- HR 1608Nov 17, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025
House vote · 400-15
Democrats207-0Republicans193-15What this does
This bill orders a study, not new security rules. Within 180 days of enactment, the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the TSA Administrator and the CISA Director, must give Congress a report on DHS efforts to prevent, deter, and respond to vehicular terrorism. The report must assess current and emerging threats, including risks from connected and autonomous vehicles, driver-assistance systems, and ride-sharing. It must review vulnerable sites and events, summarize DHS countermeasures such as barriers, bollards, geofencing, and surveillance, cover coordination with industry and with state and local law enforcement, recommend detection and vehicle-disabling technologies, and address privacy and civil liberties. The report is submitted in classified form with an unclassified executive summary published on a DHS website. DHS must brief Congress within 30 days after the report. The bill opens with findings citing the January 1, 2025 vehicle attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people.
The bill does one thing, require a DHS report and briefing on vehicular terrorism. The findings, the report elements, and the definitions all support that single deliverable. The content matches the title, and it creates no operative security mandate beyond producing the report.
- HR 2659Nov 17, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act
House vote · 402-8
Democrats205-0Republicans197-8What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to establish a joint interagency task force within 120 days of enactment to coordinate detection of and response to cyber threats to U.S. critical infrastructure from Chinese state-sponsored actors, naming Volt Typhoon specifically. The FBI Director serves as vice chairperson under the CISA Director as chair, and the task force draws subject-matter experts from the Sector Risk Management Agencies. The task force must deliver an initial report within 540 days and annual reports for five years, each assessing sector-specific risks, resource and authority gaps, and classified estimates of potential damage to infrastructure, military mobility, and the economy in a crisis or conflict with China. Reports are classified with an unclassified executive summary posted publicly, and a classified briefing follows each report within 30 days. The task force is exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act, and it terminates 60 days after its final briefing.
Single subject. Every section builds the same China-focused cyber task force and its reporting duties; there are no divisions or unrelated riders, and the short title matches the operative text.
- HR 5371Nov 12, 2025Economics and Public FinanceBundledBecame LawNay
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026
House vote · 222-209
Democrats6-207Republicans216-2Official title: H.R. 5371, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026
What this does
Division A funds most of the federal government at fiscal year 2025 rates and conditions through January 30, 2026, treats that coverage as beginning October 1, 2025, and provides that employees be paid, including back pay, ending a lapse in appropriations. Section 120 bars any federally funded reduction in force through January 30, 2026, and voids any reduction in force an executive agency took between October 1, 2025, and enactment, reinstating affected employees as of September 30, 2025, with back pay. Divisions B, C, and D provide full-year fiscal 2026 appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, the FDA, and related agencies; the Legislative Branch; and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies. Divisions E and G extend agricultural programs and Department of Veterans Affairs authorities. Division F extends funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, and teaching health centers that run graduate medical education programs through January 30, 2026, and carries Medicare, Medicaid, human-services, FDA over-the-counter drug user fee, and No Surprises Act provisions. Division H keeps the budgetary effects of the extender divisions off the statutory PAYGO scorecards.
Eight divisions under one short title. A single yes carried a stopgap continuing resolution that reopened the government, three full-year appropriations bills (Agriculture-FDA, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction-VA), agricultural and health and veterans extenders, and a PAYGO exemption. The reduction-in-force reversal in Section 120 and the full-year Agriculture, Legislative Branch, and MilCon-VA budgets all ride on the same vote as the short-term funding patch.
- HR 1047Sep 18, 2025EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
GRID Power Act
House vote · 216-206
Democrats5-205Republicans211-1What this does
This bill directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rework the grid interconnection queue to move certain power projects to the front of the line. Within 90 days of enactment, the Commission must start a rulemaking to address inefficiencies in processing interconnection requests and to amend the standard Large Generator Interconnection Procedures so transmission providers can propose reordering their queues to give higher positions to new dispatchable power projects that improve grid reliability and resource adequacy. Dispatchable power is defined as generation capable of providing known and forecastable supply in the intervals needed for grid reliability. A transmission provider's prioritization proposal must demonstrate the need for it, describe how it improves reliability or resilience, allow public comment and stakeholder engagement beforehand, and include regular reporting to the Commission. The Commission must approve or deny a submitted proposal within 60 days. It must finalize the rules within 180 days of enactment, and review and if necessary update them at least once every five years.
Every provision serves the single subject the title names. The definitions, the rulemaking mandate, the queue-prioritization authority, the approval deadlines, and the periodic review all govern the interconnection queue process for dispatchable power. No unrelated matter is attached.
- HR 3015Sep 18, 2025EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
National Coal Council Reestablishment Act
House vote · 217-209
Democrats4-206Republicans213-3What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of Energy to reestablish the National Coal Council within the Department of Energy, using the council's charter as it stood on November 19, 2021. The council is an advisory body giving the Secretary advice and recommendations on coal and the coal industry. The Federal Advisory Committee Act and the open-meeting exemption at 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) apply to the council, but the Act's committee-termination provision (5 U.S.C. 1013) does not, so the council is not subject to the standard advisory-committee sunset.
Single subject. The bill does one thing, reestablishing a single advisory council, and sets which parts of the Federal Advisory Committee Act apply to it; no divisions or unrelated provisions, and the short title matches.
- HR 3062Sep 18, 2025EnergyPassed ChamberNot voting
Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act
House vote · 224-203
Democrats7-203Republicans217-0What this does
This bill replaces the presidential-permit system for energy facilities that cross the U.S. border with a faster agency-permit process. Instead of a Presidential permit, anyone building or operating a pipeline or electric line that crosses an international border would need a "certificate of crossing." The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issues it for oil and gas pipelines and the Secretary of Energy for electric lines, and the agency must issue it within 120 days after environmental review concludes unless it finds the project is not in the public interest. Cross-border electric projects must meet reliability standards. The bill states that no Presidential permit is required for these facilities, and it bars the President from revoking existing Presidential permits issued under listed executive orders unless Congress authorizes it. It directs FERC to approve natural gas import or export applications involving Canada or Mexico within 30 days, and it repeals the Federal Power Act requirement to obtain a federal order before exporting electricity to Canada or Mexico, with conforming changes. Projects already operating, already permitted, or with a pending permit application are excluded, as are modifications to existing facilities. The changes take effect one year after enactment, with proposed rules due in 180 days and final rules in one year. A border-crossing facility is defined as the portion within 1,000 feet of the border.
Single subject. All provisions govern one thing: authorizing and permitting energy facilities that cross the U.S. border. Amendments to the Natural Gas Act and Federal Power Act are the mechanism, not separate topics.
- HR 5125Sep 17, 2025District of ColumbiaPassed ChamberNay
District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025
House vote · 218-211
Democrats0-211Republicans218-0What this does
Abolishes the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission and transfers its role to the President. It strikes section 434 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which established the Commission, and amends the related provisions so the President nominates D.C. judges directly rather than from a list recommended by the Commission, and designates chief judges himself. Conforming changes remove references to the Commission from the judge-qualification rules and the D.C. Official Code, and the change applies to appointments made on or after enactment.
Single subject. The bill eliminates one commission and reassigns its function to the President, with the remaining provisions being conforming and clerical amendments to that one change. The title matches the operative text.
- HR 5143Sep 17, 2025District of ColumbiaPassed ChamberYeaBroke with party
District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025
House vote · 245-182
Democrats29-182Republicans216-0What this does
Loosens the restrictions on vehicular pursuits by law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia and orders a federal study of pursuit-alert technology. It amends D.C.'s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 by striking existing limits and replacing them with a rule permitting an officer to pursue a suspect fleeing in a vehicle unless the officer or a supervisor reasonably believes the pursuit would create an unacceptable risk to others, would be futile, or that the suspect could be caught more effectively by other means. It also exempts sworn federal law enforcement officers from the definition of covered officers. Within three years, the Attorney General must evaluate and report to four congressional committees on the costs and benefits of the D.C. Metropolitan Police adopting PursuitAlert or similar technology that warns the public of nearby pursuits.
Single subject. The bill rewrites D.C.'s vehicular-pursuit rules and pairs that with a report on pursuit-alert technology for the same police force; both provisions concern D.C. vehicular pursuits. The title matches the operative text.
- HR 4922Sep 16, 2025Crime and Law EnforcementPassed ChamberNot voting
DC CRIMES Act of 2025
House vote · 240-179
Democrats31-178Republicans209-1Official title: D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025
What this does
This bill tightens the District of Columbia's handling of juvenile offenders. It narrows youth offender status to individuals under 18, down from the current cutoff of 24 years of age or younger, with conforming changes to the strategic plan and community service provisions, and it removes the provision that had allowed a sentence below the mandatory-minimum term for youth offenders. It also directs the DC Attorney General to build and run a public website of juvenile crime statistics, updated monthly and archived indefinitely, covering arrests broken down by age, race, and sex, petty and violent offenses, first-time versus repeat arrests, prosecution declinations, adult transfers, and sentencing outcomes, all in a machine-readable bulk-download format and without any juvenile's personally identifiable information. To feed that site, juvenile case records, social records, and law enforcement records must be provided to the Attorney General despite their usual confidentiality.
The operative text keeps to one subject, DC juvenile justice, across youth offender status and a juvenile crime statistics website. One gap to flag: the caption promises an amendment to the DC Home Rule Act barring the DC Council from changing criminal liability sentences, but the passed text contains no such provision. There is also an internal cross-reference slip, with the effective-date clause pointing to section 16-2341 while the website section it adds is 16-2340a.
- HR 5140Sep 16, 2025Crime and Law EnforcementPassed ChamberNot voting
Trying DC Minors as Adults at Age 14
House vote · 225-203
Democrats8-202Republicans217-1Official title: To lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age.
What this does
Lowers, for the District of Columbia, the age at which a minor charged with certain offenses can be moved into the adult criminal system. Section (a) amends DC Official Code 16-2301 to drop from sixteen to fourteen the age at which such a minor is excluded from Family Court jurisdiction. Section (b) amends DC Official Code 16-2307(a) to lower the ages at which a minor may be transferred to an adult criminal proceeding, changing fifteen to fourteen in one paragraph and sixteen to fourteen in another. The changes apply to offenses committed on or after the date of enactment.
Single subject. Both amendments move the same threshold age to fourteen in the District of Columbia's juvenile code. The displayed title is the bill's full descriptive sentence because the bill carries no short title; the nickname states the effect plainly.