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H.R. 836119th CongressPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA) · 5 active : 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedFeb 5, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEmergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act of 2025
This bill requires the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to (1) jointly evaluate the container aerial firefighting system to assess its use to mitigate and suppress wildfires, and (2) report on the results of the evaluation to Congress.
The system allows for the use of airdrop-capable disposable containers of water or fire retardant in order to increase the number of airlift assets available for wildfire emergencies.
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 Agriculture · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Aviation and airports
- Congressional oversight
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- Jim Costa (D-CA-21)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4)
- George Whitesides (D-CA-27)
- Josh Harder (D-CA-9)
- Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-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.
