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H.R. 1431119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".
Sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) · 11 active : 3 Republicans, 8 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 595.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedApr 14, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThis bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".
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 Oversight and Government Reform · HouseMarkup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Congressional tributes
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- New Jersey
- Postal service
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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
11 activeShow all 11 cosponsors
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12)
- Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4)
- Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1)
- Herbert C. Conaway (D-NJ-3)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
- LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10)
- Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11)
- Nellie Pou (D-NJ-9)
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ-8)
- Thomas H. Kean (R-NJ-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.
