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H.R. 4233119th CongressInternational Affairs
ARMOR Act
Sponsored by Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) · 6 active : 4 Republicans, 2 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.govAUKUS Reform for Military Optimization and Review Act or the ARMOR Act
This bill expedites review processes for the export of certain defense articles and services to Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), and Canada.
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Specifically, the bill exempts from certain congressional notification requirements the export or transfer of defense articles or services subject to the defense trade partnership between Australia, the UK, and the United States (AUKUS). (Under current law, exports and transfers of defense articles and services to Australia and the UK are exempt from certain export controls pursuant to AUKUS. Separately, approvals of certain commercial agreements and the export of certain defense articles, services, and equipment are generally subject to congressional notification requirements and a waiting period.) Under the bill, exports and transfers that are exempt from export controls pursuant to AUKUS are also exempt from these congressional notification requirements.
Further, the bill requires the Department of State to periodically review the list of defense articles and services excluded from AUKUS to ensure it includes only items that (1) are required by statute to be included, or (2) require licensing review for national security reasons.
Finally, the bill explicitly states that the existing expedited review process for applications to export certain commercial, advanced-technology defense articles and services to Australia, the UK, and Canada is available to all exports and transfers, including reexports, retransfers, temporary imports, and brokering activity. Such exports and transfers must take place wholly within or between the territory of these countries or the United States.
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
- Australia
- Canada
- Congressional oversight
- Europe
- Licensing and registrations
- Military assistance, sales, and agreements
- Oceania
- United Kingdom
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
6 activeShow all 6 cosponsors
- Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT-1)
- Gabe Amo (D-RI-1)
- Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
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.
