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H.R. 2931119th CongressCommerce
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN) · 1 active : 1 Republican
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJun 5, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSave SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act
This bill requires the relocation of a regional, district, or local office of the Small Business Administration (SBA) if the SBA makes a public determination that the office is located in a sanctuary jurisdiction. The SBA must relocate that office, within 60 days of such determination, to a location that is not a sanctuary jurisdiction.
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Under the bill, a sanctuary jurisdiction is a state or political subdivision thereof that prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from (1) exchanging with another government entity information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of an individual; or (2) complying with specified requests by the Department of Homeland Security.
Additionally, the SBA may not establish an office in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
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 PassagePassed211 yea, 199 nayJune 5, 2025 · Roll call 153
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 58 | 8 | 14% |
| Middle | 175 | 1 | 1% |
| Entrenched | 165 | 0 | 0% |
| Insufficient data |
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
- Administrative remedies
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Immigration status and procedures
- Intergovernmental relations
- Small Business Administration
- State and local government operations
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
- 65Middle 30–70
- 25Entrenched 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Nick LaLota (R-NY-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.
