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H.R. 5517: Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 5517119th CongressImmigration

Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

Sponsored by Rep. Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY) · 27 active : 26 Republicans, 1 Democrat

Latest action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedSep 16, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to regularly perform a threat analysis of the northern U.S. border.

The analysis must be performed every two years and include terroristic and criminal threats, improvements needed to prevent terrorism and reduce criminal activity, and whether preclearance and advance inspection operations at northern ports of entry could prevent terrorists from entering in the United States.

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DHS must (1) update its northern border strategy after performing each threat analysis, and (2) provide a classified briefing to Congress. If DHS determines no update is required, DHS must notify Congress.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) must develop performance measures to assess the AMO’s effectiveness at securing the northern border between ports of entry in air and maritime environments.

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 Homeland Security · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Border Security and Enforcement · HouseDischarged from · Referred to

Subjects

Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
North America

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

42Swing 70–100
191Middle 30–70
198Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

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, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 17.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 275 · Jun 26, 2025 · Roll call 183On PassageSpecial Interest Alien Reporting Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 5717 · Sep 20, 2024 · Roll call 1155On PassageNo Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
S. 2 · Jun 9, 2026 · Roll call 574On PassageSecure America Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.Res. 1128 · Mar 26, 2026 · Roll call 462On Agreeing to the Resolution, as AmendedExpressing the support of the House of Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4638 · Mar 19, 2026 · Roll call 456On PassageBOWOW Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1958 · Mar 18, 2026 · Roll call 454On PassageDeporting Fraudsters Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 72 · Feb 11, 2026 · Roll call 425On PassageRelating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 3486 · Sep 11, 2025 · Roll call 263On PassageStop Illegal Entry Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.R. 875 · Jun 26, 2025 · Roll call 182On PassageJeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 2056 · Jun 12, 2025 · Roll call 170On PassageDistrict of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
S. 5 · Jan 22, 2025 · Roll call 22On PassageLaken Riley Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 30 · Jan 16, 2025 · Roll call 16On PassagePreventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act

Cosponsors

27 active

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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.