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H.R. 3616119th CongressEnergy
Reliable Power Act
Sponsored by Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) · 20 active : 20 Republicans
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 Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 17, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govReliable Power Act
This bill directs the electric reliability organization (i.e., the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) to conduct annual long-term assessments of the reliability of electric power in the bulk-power system. It also establishes a process for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review federal regulations before they are finalized if the electric reliability organization finds that the system is at risk of not having sufficient electric generation to maintain reliability.
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If the electric reliability organization finds that the system does not have sufficient generation to maintain reliability, it must notify FERC that the bulk-power system is in a state of generation inadequacy. FERC must then notify the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and any other appropriate federal agencies of the generation inadequacy. Upon receiving the notice, the federal agency must provide proposed regulations that affect any generation resource in the bulk-power system to FERC for review and comment. If applicable, FERC must provide recommendations to modify the regulations. Federal agencies may not finalize such a regulation until FERC finds that it will not be likely to have a significant negative impact on the ability of the bulk-power system to supply sufficient electric energy necessary to maintain an adequate level of reliability.
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 PassagePassed225 yea, 203 nayDecember 17, 2025 · Roll call 347
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 48 | 7 | 15% |
| Middle | 244 | 0 | 0% |
| Entrenched | 131 | 0 | 0% |
| All |
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Energy · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
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
- 70Middle 30–70
- 20Entrenched 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
20 activeShow all 20 cosponsors
- Julie Fedorchak (R-ND-AL)
- Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1)
- Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12)
- Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12)
- John Joyce (R-PA-13)
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6)
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23)
- Troy Downing (R-MT-2)
- H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9)
- Robert P. Bresnahan (R-PA-8)
- Tim Moore (R-NC-14)
- Richard Hudson (R-NC-9)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1)
- Tracey Mann (R-KS-1)
- Addison P. McDowell (R-NC-6)
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.
