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H.R. 3898119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
PERMIT Act
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) · 8 active : 8 Republicans
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 Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 11, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPromoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act or the PERMIT Act
This bill limits the scope of the Clean Water Act by redefining
navigable waters
to exclude (1) waste treatment systems, (2) ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation, (3) prior converted cropland, (4) groundwater, or (5) any other features determined to be excluded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Water Resources and Environment · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Farmland
- Marine pollution
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Seashores and lakeshores
- Solid waste and recycling
- Water quality
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 79Middle 30–70
- 15Entrenched 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-v3Bars 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
8 activeShow all 8 cosponsors
- Sam Graves (R-MO-6)
- David Rouzer (R-NC-7)
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT-4)
- Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO-3)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN-8)
- David J. Taylor (R-OH-2)
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.
