H.R. 1263 · 119th Congress · International affairs
Strengthening the Quad Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · May 19, 2025
Roll call ↗334
51
Passed the House.
Passed the House on May 19, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 12, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 19, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 5
- 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 2
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill directs diplomacy toward the Quad, the grouping of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, May 19, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill directs diplomacy toward the Quad, the grouping of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Within 180 days, the Secretary of State must give the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad, including a summary of past and current Quad initiatives, the diplomatic and bureaucratic barriers to expanding them, and recommendations for how Congress could help, including any new authorities or resources needed. Within 60 days, the Secretary must seek negotiations with Australia, India, and Japan toward a written agreement to establish a Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group. If such an agreement is reached, a United States Group of up to 24 Members of Congress is established to represent the country in that working group, split evenly between House and Senate appointees, meeting at least annually and reporting yearly to the two foreign affairs committees.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 2 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 9 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named: Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE); Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR). Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.