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H.R. 1665119th CongressScience, Technology, Communications
DIGITAL Applications Act
Sponsored by Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) · 3 active : 3 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedMar 16, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govDeploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for accepting, processing, and disposal of applications for communications use authorizations. These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.
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Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.
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 Agriculture · HouseDischarged from · Referred to
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Communications and Technology · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Government information and archives
- Internet, web applications, social media
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 68Middle 30–70
- 24Entrenched 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-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . 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
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-7)
- April McClain Delaney (D-MD-6)
- Greg Landsman (D-OH-1)
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.
