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H.R. 3962119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
ESTUARIES Act
Sponsored by Rep. Shomari Figures (D-AL) · 26 active : 7 Republicans, 19 Democrats
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 Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 15, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEnhancing Science, Treatment, and Upkeep of America’s Resilient and Important Estuarine Systems Act or the ESTUARIES Act
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This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 grants provided under the National Estuary Program to protect and restore estuaries of national significance. Estuaries are coastal waterbodies where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with the ocean’s saltwater. Under the existing program, the Environmental Protection Agency provides grants for (1) developing and implementing comprehensive conservation and management plans for estuaries of national significance, and (2) addressing issues that threaten the ecological and economic well-being of such estuaries. The existing program provides grants to states, regional water pollution control agencies and entities, state coastal zone management agencies, interstate agencies, other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, organizations, and individuals.
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 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
- Intergovernmental relations
- Marine pollution
- State and local government operations
- Water quality
- Wetlands
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 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-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, Senate
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Cosponsors
26 activeShow all 26 cosponsors
- Brian J. Mast (R-FL-21)
- Mike Haridopolos (R-FL-8)
- Nick LaLota (R-NY-1)
- Rick Larsen (D-WA-2)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2)
- Kathy Castor (D-FL-14)
- Cleo Fields (D-LA-6)
- Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1)
- George Latimer (D-NY-16)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA-26)
- Sarah McBride (D-DE-AL)
- Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2)
- Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-2)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Chris Pappas (D-NH-1)
- Seth Moulton
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.
