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H.R. 973: Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 973119th CongressCommerce

Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act

Sponsored by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) · 23 active : 6 Republicans, 17 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedApr 28, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

7 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act

This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a final consumer product safety rule for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices, such as electric bikes and electric scooters.

Specifically, the rule must require manufacturers and distributors of such products to comply with the applicable safety standards jointly established by the American National Standards Institute, the Standards Council of Canada, and UL Solutions Inc.

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

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassPassed365 yea, 42 nayApril 28, 2025 · Roll call 103

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	27	0	0%
Middle	180	33	18%
Entrenched	193	8	4%
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Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Consumer affairs
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Pedestrians and bicycling
Product safety and quality

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the Senate breaks down

7Swing 70–100
65Middle 30–70
28Entrenched 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

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.

1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine · Lean D+4On the ballot

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 0.0 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

No similar roll calls in the Senate

No substantive, contested vote in this chamber matches the bill’s measure, subjects or policy area.

Cosponsors

23 active

Show all 23 cosponsors

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.