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H.R. 1642: Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 1642119th CongressCommerce

Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) · 5 active : 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedJun 3, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025

This bill requires Small Business Development Centers and Women's Business Centers to provide educational information to small businesses about hiring graduates of career and technical education programs.

This includes, as appropriate, connecting small businesses with career and technical education programs to assist students and graduates of such programs with identifying career opportunities.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Small Business · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Business education
Employee hiring
Higher education
Small business
Vocational and technical education
Women in business

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

42Swing 70–100
205Middle 30–70
184Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

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, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 12.0 (needs 5.0).

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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 2965 · Dec 3, 2025 · Roll call 309On PassageSmall Business Regulatory Reduction Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1770 · Jul 14, 2025 · Roll call 191On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassConsumer Safety Technology Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 3422 · Jun 23, 2025 · Roll call 173On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedPromoting Opportunities for Non-Traditional Capital Formation Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1442 · Apr 29, 2025 · Roll call 107On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedYouth Poisoning Protection Act
PassedSame policy area

Cosponsors

5 active

Show all 5 cosponsors

Derek Tran (D-CA-45)
Johnny Olszewski (D-MD-2)
Robert P. Bresnahan (R-PA-8)
Tony Wied (R-WI-8)
Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-2)

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.

Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025

Summary

Committees and subjects

Committees

Subjects

How the House breaks down

Key players in the House

Similar past votes, House

Cosponsors

How the swing score works

Not enough data to rank (2)

Ideology vs. swing score, House