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H.R. 1190119th CongressFinance and Financial Sector
Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act
Sponsored by Rep. Troy Downing (R-MT) · 5 active : 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
Latest action: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5185)
Where it standsBefore the House32 representatives score as swing votes
Passed both chambers, awaiting the President
- House: passedJun 23, 2025
- Senate: passedSep 29, 2026
- President: Awaiting action
Summary
, via Congress.govExpanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act
This bill requires the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation within the Securities and Exchange Commission to report on issues encountered by rural-area small businesses.
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.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Business investment and capital
- Rural conditions and development
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Small business
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. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- Chris Pappas (D-NH-1)
- Janelle S. Bynum (D-OR-5)
- Zachary Nunn (R-IA-3)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX-17)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
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.
