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H.R. 5131119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Nicholas J. Begich (R-AK) · 1 active : 1 Democrat
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 Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 9, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPublic Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025
This bill extends by 25 years the reservation of certain public lands for military use and the withdrawal of such lands from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws (e.g., mining laws). Specifically, the bill extends the withdrawal and reservation of the Fort Greely and Fort Wainwright Training Ranges in Alaska and the McGregor Range at Fort Bliss in New Mexico until November 6, 2051. It also extends the withdrawal and reservation of Fort Irwin military land in California until December 31, 2051.
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The bill also makes technical changes to the land descriptions of the McGregor Range and Fort Irwin lands.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Services · HouseBills of interest - exchange of · Discharged from · Referred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Federal Lands · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Alaska
- California
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Military facilities and property
- New Mexico
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
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
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.
