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H.R. 2259: National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 2259119th CongressEducation

National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) · 9 active : 5 Republicans, 4 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedNov 19, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a national strategy to secure elementary and secondary schools from acts of terrorism. DHS must submit this strategy to Congress, annually update the strategy (if appropriate) through 2033, and provide annual briefings to Congress on those updates.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Homeland Security · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Counterterrorism and Intelligence · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Terrorism

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

v3defaultv2

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

How the House breaks down

37Swing 70–100
206Middle 30–70
188Entrenched 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 20.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 2616 · May 20, 2026 · Roll call 544On PassagePROTECT Kids Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 1049 · Dec 4, 2025 · Roll call 313On PassageTRACE Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 165 · Jul 11, 2024 · Roll call 1072On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4795 · Sep 3, 2026 · Roll call 655On PassageProtect Economic and Academic Freedom Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 7892 · Jun 10, 2026 · Roll call 577On PassageNo Aid for Ghost Students Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6472 · Mar 4, 2026 · Roll call 442On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedTerritorial Student Access to Higher Education Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6359 · Jan 22, 2026 · Roll call 407On PassagePregnant Students’ Rights Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1069 · Dec 4, 2025 · Roll call 312On PassagePROTECT Our Kids Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.R. 1005 · Dec 3, 2025 · Roll call 311On PassageCLASS Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 881 · May 7, 2025 · Roll call 119On PassageDHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1048 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 82On PassageDETERRENT Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1048 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 79On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area

Cosponsors

9 active

Show all 9 cosponsors

Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
Don Bacon (R-NE-2)
Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1)
Gabe Evans (R-CO-8)
Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23)
Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
August Pfluger (R-TX-11)
Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-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.