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H.R. 4776119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
SPEED Act
Sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) · 14 active : 7 Republicans, 7 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 Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 18, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govStandardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act or the SPEED Act
This bill limits the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and modifies the environmental review of major federal actions under NEPA to generally limit the number of federal actions that trigger NEPA review and to expedite the review process.
For example, the bill redefines
major federal actions
, including to specify that an agency may not determine that an action is a major federal action based solely on the provision of federal funds.
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It also excludes from the requirement for NEPA review certain proposed agency actions that have already been reviewed under another federal, state, or tribal environmental review statute that meets the requirements of NEPA.
The bill directs an agency, when preparing an environmental document for a proposed agency action, to consider only those effects proximately caused by the immediate project or action under consideration. Agencies may not consider effects that are speculative, attenuated from the project or action, separate in time or place from the project or action, or in relation to separate projects or actions.
The bill modifies the requirement for agencies to prepare an environmental assessment to apply to agency actions that are not likely to have a reasonably foreseeable significant effect on the quality of the human environment. (Currently, the requirement only applies to actions that do not have such an effect.)
The bill makes a variety of other modifications to NEPA, including by limiting judicial review of NEPA cases.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Government information and archives
- Judicial review and appeals
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
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Cosponsors
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2)
- Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN-8)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL)
- Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34)
- Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5)
- Gabe Evans (R-CO-8)
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3)
- Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1)
- Adam Gray (D-CA-13)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- Jim Costa (D-CA-21)
- Nicholas J. Begich (R-AK-AL)
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.
