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H.R. 1800119th CongressInternational Affairs
Solidify Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) · 2 active : 2 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedMay 5, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSolidify Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
This bill eliminates a sunset clause in the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, thereby making the act permanent.
The Iran Sanctions Act requires the President, with some exceptions, to impose sanctions on certain individuals or entities engaged in specified transactions related to Iran's energy sector or Iran's efforts to acquire or develop certain weapons (such as chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons).
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 Financial Services · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on the Judiciary · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Ways and Means · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Arms control and nonproliferation
- Congressional oversight
- Iran
- Middle East
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 71Middle 30–70
- 19Entrenched 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-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . 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
2 activeShow all 2 cosponsors
- Brad Sherman (D-CA-32)
- Laura Gillen (D-NY-4)
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.
