Save Our Shrimpers Act

Sponsored by Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-TX) · 20 active : 17 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedMay 12, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Save Our Shrimpers Act

This bill prohibits federal funds from being made available to international financial institutions (e.g., the International Monetary Fund) for financing activities related to foreign shrimp farms. The bill also requires an annual report on compliance by U.S. leadership of international financial institutions with policies to oppose financing for certain commodities or minerals.

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Specifically, the bill requires the Department of the Treasury to condition any provision of federal funds to an international financial institution on the requirement that the funds not be used to finance any activity related to shrimp farming, shrimp processing, or the export of shrimp in any foreign country.

Under current law, Treasury must instruct U.S. leadership of international financial institutions to oppose providing financial assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if (1) the commodity or mineral is in surplus on world markets, and (2) the export of such commodity or mineral will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a competing commodity or mineral (or of the same or a similar commodity or mineral). This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to investigate and annually report to Congress on the extent to which U.S. leadership at these institutions have carried out Treasury's instructions.

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 Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedPassed391 yea, 18 nayMay 12, 2026 · Roll call 156

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	47	0	0%
Middle	200	11	6%
Entrenched	162	7	4%
All

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Agricultural trade
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Seafood

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

43Swing 70–100
198Middle 30–70
190Entrenched 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

Not applicable in the House. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 3.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

H.R. 6504 · Jan 12, 2026 · Roll call 375On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedHaiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 2683 · Jan 12, 2026 · Roll call 373On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedRemote Access Security Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 5179 · Sep 18, 2024 · Roll call 1146On PassageAnti-BDS Labeling Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 9456 · Sep 11, 2024 · Roll call 1133On PassageProtecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 5921 · Apr 15, 2024 · Roll call 841On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedNo U.S. Financing for Iran Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 39 · May 24, 2023 · Roll call 232Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary NotwithstandingDisapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Commerce relating to “Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord with Presidential Proclamation 10414”
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 39 · Apr 28, 2023 · Roll call 201On PassageDisapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Commerce relating to “Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord with Presidential Proclamation 10414”
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

20 active

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Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13)
Barry Moore (R-AL-1)
Brian Babin (R-TX-36)
Byron Donalds (R-FL-19)
Clay Higgins (R-LA-3)
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3)
Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12)
John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5)
Julia Letlow (R-LA-5)
Michael Cloud (R-TX-27)
Mike Ezell (R-MS-4)
Nancy Mace (R-SC-1)
Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
Russell Fry (R-SC-7)
Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2)
Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34)
Mike Haridopolos

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.