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H.R. 2293119th CongressAnimals
Cormorant Relief Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Ezell (R-MS) · 3 active : 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 9, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govCormorant Relief Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue the depredation order for double-crested cormorants
at aquaculture facilities in certain states. (The previous order was vacated in 2016 by court order.)
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Depredation orders allow for the taking (i.e., capturing, killing, dispersing, or transport of the carcass) of a specified species without a permit, generally to reduce damage caused by the species or to protect interests like health or property. Reissuing this order authorizes landowners, operators, tenants, and employees of entities engaged in aquaculture to take double-crested cormorants that are causing or threatening harm at aquaculture facilities and state and federal fish hatcheries.
Interior must reissue the depredation order with updates, including an expansion of (1) the number of states covered by the order, and (2) the entities to whom the order applies (i.e., private lake and pond managers who are licensed by the state).
Under the bill, Interior must renew the depredation order every five years.
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 Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Water, Wildlife and Fisheries · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Alabama
- Aquaculture
- Arkansas
- Birds
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
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Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 63Middle 30–70
- 27Entrenched 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-v3, 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, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2)
- Michael Guest (R-MS-3)
- Trent Kelly (R-MS-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.
