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H.R. 1181119th CongressFinance and Financial Sector
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
Sponsored by Rep. Riley M. Moore (R-WV) · 132 active : 132 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJul 14, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtecting Privacy in Purchases Act
This bill prohibits payment card networks from using merchant codes that distinguish firearms retailers from general-merchandise retailers or sporting-goods retailers.
The Department of Justice must enforce this bill and report annually on the resulting investigations and cases.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Banking and financial institutions regulation
- Consumer affairs
- Firearms and explosives
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Right of privacy
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 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, 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, . 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
132 activeShow all 132 cosponsors
- Aaron Bean (R-FL-4)
- Andy Barr (R-KY-6)
- Barry Moore (R-AL-1)
- Ben Cline (R-VA-6)
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN-1)
- Brandon Gill (R-TX-26)
- Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA-3)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4)
- Daniel Webster (R-FL-11)
- Derek Schmidt (R-KS-2)
- James Comer (R-KY-1)
- John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5)
- John W. Rose (R-TN-6)
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6)
- Michael Guest
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.
