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H.R. 2635119th CongressInternational Affairs
Uyghur Policy Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) · 14 active : 4 Republicans, 10 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 2, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govUyghur Policy Act of 2025
This bill addresses human rights issues concerning the Uyghurs and other minority groups residing primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China.
The bill directs the Department of State to prioritize policies and programs to support the Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in the XUAR and to lead coordination efforts for the release of certain political prisoners in the XUAR.
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The State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs may make certain funds available to human rights advocates working on behalf of Uyghurs and members of other persecuted minority groups from the XUAR. The funds shall be used to facilitate the presence of such human rights advocates at public diplomacy forums to speak on issues related to the human rights and religious freedoms of persecuted minority groups in China.
The State Department must ensure that Uyghur language training is available to Foreign Service officers. It must also ensure that a Uyghur-speaking member of the Foreign Service is assigned to U.S. diplomatic and consular posts in China.
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 Foreign Affairs · HouseMarkup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Albania
- Asia
- Canada
- China
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional tributes
- Department of State
- Detention of persons
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Europe
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Foreign aid and international relief
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- Foreign language and bilingual programs
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 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-v2, 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, . 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
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- Ami Bera (D-CA-6)
- Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5)
- Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
- Brad Sherman (D-CA-32)
- Gabe Amo (D-RI-1)
- James C. Moylan (R-GU-AL)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11)
- Scott H. Peters (D-CA-50)
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.
