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H.R. 5103119th CongressPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. John J. McGuire (R-VA) · 4 active : 4 Republicans
Latest action: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 437.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate11 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedMar 25, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govMake the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act
This bill establishes a commission in the executive branch to
advise on certain criminal and immigration matters in the District of Columbia (DC). It also establishes a federal program to ensure that commonly visited areas in DC are cleaned and maintained. (On March 27, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled
Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful
, which established a similar task force and program.)
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First, the bill establishes a commission made up of representatives from the U.S. Attorneys' Offices for DC, Maryland, and Virginia; specified federal agencies; and other designated federal entities. The commission must recommend actions to, among other tasks, address enforcement of federal immigration law in DC, facilitate the provision of federal resources to reduce crime, and assist with recruitment and retention of DC's Metropolitan Police Department officers.
Next, the bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish a program to coordinate and maintain the cleanliness of commonly visited areas in DC, including monuments, parks, and roads. The program must also restore damaged or removed federal public monuments and similar properties.
The bill's provisions terminate on January 2, 2029.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Federal Lands · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Congressional oversight
- Crime prevention
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Department of the Interior
- District of Columbia
- Firearms and explosives
- Law enforcement officers
- Maryland
- Monuments and memorials
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 11Swing 70–100
- 67Middle 30–70
- 22Entrenched 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
4 activeShow all 4 cosponsors
- Clay Higgins (R-LA-3)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA-41)
- Mike Collins (R-GA-10)
- Michael Guest (R-MS-3)
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.
