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H.R. 4490119th CongressInternational Affairs
PARTNER Act
Sponsored by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) · 8 active : 3 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 Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 2, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProviding Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations Act or the PARTNER Act
This bill authorizes the President to extend diplomatic immunities and privileges provided by the International Organizations Immunities Act, including immunity from certain lawsuits and exemption from property taxes, to specified international regional and research organizations.
Specifically, the bill authorizes the President to extend these immunities and privileges to
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the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organization with 10 members including Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam;
the Pacific Islands Forum, a regional organization with 18 members including Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea;
the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a regional organization with 15 members and 6 associate members including Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia; and
the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), an international research organization focused on particle physics.
The bill also authorizes the President to extend to the permanent observer mission of the African Union to the United Nations the privileges and immunities provided to permanent missions to the United Nations of member 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
- ASEAN countries
- Africa
- Caribbean area
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Government liability
- International law and treaties
- International organizations and cooperation
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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
8 activeShow all 8 cosponsors
- Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
- Bill Foster (D-IL-11)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL)
- Ed Case (D-HI-1)
- Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5)
- Johnny Olszewski (D-MD-2)
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20)
- Young Kim (R-CA-40)
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.
