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H.R. 3429119th CongressInternational Affairs
US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
Sponsored by Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) · 20 active : 8 Republicans, 12 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: passedJun 8, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govUS-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
This bill requires the Department of State to seek to enter negotiations with the governments of Japan and South Korea with the goal of establishing regular trilateral meetings (referred to as the
US-Japan-ROK Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue
) to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values.
The bill sets forth membership requirements for a group representing the United States in such meetings. The group must be composed of not more than eight Members of Congress appointed by congressional leaders to serve for a term of two years.
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The bill also sets forth guidance and requirements for meeting frequency and location, group leadership, gifts and donations, expenditures, and reports.
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
- Advisory bodies
- Asia
- Congressional oversight
- International organizations and cooperation
- Japan
- Members of Congress
- South Korea
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 73Middle 30–70
- 18Entrenched 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
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Cosponsors
20 activeShow all 20 cosponsors
- Adrian Smith (R-NE-3)
- Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11)
- Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20)
- Joe Wilson (R-SC-2)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA-16)
- Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10)
- Ed Case (D-HI-1)
- Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5)
- James C. Moylan (R-GU-AL)
- Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-MP-AL)
- Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10)
- Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10)
- Sarah McBride (D-DE-AL)
- Young Kim (R-CA-40)
- Ted Lieu (D-CA-36)
- Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8)
- James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11)
- Zachary Nunn (R-IA-3)
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.
