Geothermal Energy Advancement Act

Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO) · 5 active : 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 663.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedJun 2, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Geothermal Ombudsman for National Deployment and Optimal Reviews Act

This bill establishes a geothermal ombudsman and task force to oversee geothermal project permitting and authorizations on federal land.

The Department of the Interior must appoint a geothermal ombudsman from within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The ombudsman must act as a liaison among different parts of BLM, provide dispute resolution services between BLM and geothermal project applicants, and facilitate permit processing in different BLM field offices regarding geothermal projects on federal land.

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The ombudsman must also lead the Geothermal Permitting Task Force established by this bill. The task force must support the ombudsman’s duties. Through the task force, the ombudsman may reassign employees from other Interior bureaus or offices to assist in the completion of geothermal authorizations. The ombudsman may pay a retention allowance to reassigned employees.

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 Natural Resources · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Energy and Mineral Resources · HouseDischarged from · Hearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Public Lands, Forests, and Mining · SenateHearings by (subcommittee)

Subjects

Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Earth sciences
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Licensing and registrations

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

44Swing 70–100
204Middle 30–70
183Entrenched 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 59.5 (needs 5.0).

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Cosponsors

5 active

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Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2)
Mike Kennedy (R-UT-3)
Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14)
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-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.