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H.R. 250119th CongressCongress
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.
Sponsored by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) · 34 active : 20 Republicans, 14 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedFeb 26, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThis bill requires the Joint Committee on the Library to contract for and place a statue of Benjamin Franklin in the Capitol.
The committee shall place the statue in a permanent public location where it is accessible during a guided tour provided by the Capitol Visitor Center.
The contract must be executed by December 31, 2025, and the statue must be placed by December 31, 2026.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on House Administration · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Joint Committee on the Library
- Monuments and memorials
- U.S. Capitol
- U.S. history
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.
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
34 activeShow all 34 cosponsors
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6)
- Dina Titus (D-NV-1)
- Dwight Evans (D-PA-3)
- Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5)
- Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- John Joyce (R-PA-13)
- Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15)
- Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-9)
- Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA-17)
- Seth Moulton (D-MA-6)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
- Don Bacon (R-NE-2)
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.
