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H.R. 1501119th CongressEnergy
Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Jefferson Shreve (R-IN) · 2 active : 2 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 2, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025
This bill provides statutory authority for federal agencies to expedite the environmental review of certain mining infrastructure projects.
Specifically, the bill permanently makes certain mining infrastructure projects eligible for expedited environmental review under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). This provides statutory authority for similar authorities that were included in the rule titled
Adding Mining as a Sector of Projects Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act
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and issued by the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) on January 8, 2021.
The bill also prohibits the Permitting Council from finalizing its proposed rule titled
Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act
and issued on September 22, 2023. Among other modifications, the rule proposes to limit the types of mining projects that are eligible for the expedited environmental review process. Specifically, the proposed rule limits the expedited process to critical minerals mining projects.
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
On PassagePassed218 yea, 201 naySeptember 2, 2026 · Roll call 294
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 51 | 7 | 14% |
| Middle | 209 | 0 | 0% |
| Entrenched | 157 | 0 | 0% |
| Insufficient data |
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Energy and Mineral Resources · HouseDischarged from · Hearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Infrastructure development
- Metals
- Mining
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
2 activeShow all 2 cosponsors
- Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1)
- H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9)
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.
