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S. 714119th CongressEnergy
Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) · 5 active : 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 335.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govCritical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025
This bill modifies the Energy Act of 2020 to expand the definition of
critical minerals
used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to include
critical materials
designated by the Department of Energy (DOE). It also directs USGS to update its list within 45 days of DOE adding a mineral, element, substance, or material to its critical materials list. Thus, the bill requires the lists to be treated consistently and makes critical materials eligible for the same benefits (e.g., financing support or clean energy tax credits) provided to critical minerals.
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By way of background, DOE's critical materials list contains certain materials that are essential for energy, including those on the critical minerals list of the USGS. The USGS's list, which contains certain minerals that are essential to the nation's economic or national security, is currently not required to include the materials on DOE's list.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Metals
- Mining
- Strategic materials and reserves
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 61Middle 30–70
- 33Entrenched 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-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
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Cosponsors
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- John R. Curtis (R-UT)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
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.
