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H.R. 2643119th CongressInternational Affairs
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) · 9 active : 4 Republicans, 5 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 Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 2, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govHaiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that are involved in or have direct ties to prominent criminal gangs in Haiti.
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Specifically, the Department of State must periodically report to Congress on the ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. The report must list (1) prominent criminal gangs in Haiti and the leaders thereof, and (2) Haitian political and economic elites who have direct links to criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by these individuals. The President must impose sanctions on listed individuals and entities.
Under the bill, the term
economic elites
means board members, officers, and executives of groups, corporations, or other entities that exert substantial influence or control over Haiti’s economy, infrastructure, or particular industries.
Political elites
means current and former government officials and their high-level staff and political party or committee leaders.
The bill also applies civil and criminal penalties to persons that violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of the regulations promulgated to carry out such sanctions.
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
- House Committee on the Judiciary · HouseBills of interest - exchange of · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Caribbean area
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign property
- Haiti
- Organized crime
- Political parties and affiliation
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Rule of law and government transparency
- Sanctions
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 75Middle 30–70
- 17Entrenched 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-v3Bars 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
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Cosponsors
9 activeShow all 9 cosponsors
- Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10)
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37)
- Wesley Bell (D-MO-1)
- Richard McCormick (R-GA-7)
- 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.
