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H.R. 151119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
Equal Representation Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) · 66 active : 66 Republicans
Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 536.
Where it standsBefore the House35 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEqual Representation Act
This bill requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress after the decennial census indicating the number of persons in each state exclude noncitizens. (This statement is the basis for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives.)
The bill also requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national (
alien
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under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States.
The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Census and government statistics
- Citizenship and naturalization
- Congressional districts and representation
- Government information and archives
- Immigration status and procedures
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
66 activeShow all 66 cosponsors
- Aaron Bean (R-FL-4)
- Barry Moore (R-AL-1)
- Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA-3)
- David Rouzer (R-NC-7)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN-9)
- Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL)
- Kat Cammack (R-FL-3)
- Max L. Miller (R-OH-7)
- Michael Guest (R-MS-3)
- Mike Bost (R-IL-12)
- Mike Collins (R-GA-10)
- Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5)
- Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22)
- Warren Davidson (R-OH-8)
- Adrian Smith (R-NE-3)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2)
- John W. Rose (R-TN-6)
- Brad Knott
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
