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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.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 16, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govNorthern 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
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
27 activeShow all 27 cosponsors
- Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2)
- Mark Alford (R-MO-4)
- Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Nicholas J. Begich (R-AK-AL)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN-8)
- Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT-1)
- Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6)
- Russell Fry (R-SC-7)
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA-16)
- Nicole Malliotakis
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.
