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H.R. 6715119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
Child Predators Accountability Act
Sponsored by Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) · 1 active : 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJan 12, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govChild Predators Accountability Act of 2025
This bill broadens the scope of prohibited conduct under two federal criminal statutes related to the production of child pornography.
Under current law, both statutes prohibit employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction or transmitting a live visual depiction of the conduct.
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This bill expands prohibited conduct to include employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to be depicted engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The bill also defines the term
engage in
to include a minor's presence in a such a depiction regardless of whether or not the minor is participating in the sexually explicit conduct.
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 the Judiciary · HouseMarkup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Crimes against children
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Pornography
- Sex offenses
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 25Entrenched 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
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- 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.
