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H.R. 6398: RED Tape Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 6398119th CongressEnvironmental Protection

RED Tape Act

Sponsored by Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) · 0 active

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

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

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Reducing and Eliminating Duplicative Environmental Regulations Act or the RED Tape Act

This bill removes the requirement under the Clean Air Act that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) review and comment on newly authorized federal construction projects and other major federal agency actions that already require review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and proposed federal regulations.

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

On PassagePassed222 yea, 205 nayApril 16, 2026 · Roll call 118

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	49	8	16%
Middle	218	0	0%
Entrenched	158	0	0%
All

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Environment · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Air quality
Building construction
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

v3defaultv2

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

How the House breaks down

46Swing 70–100
206Middle 30–70
179Entrenched 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 31.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 6398 · Apr 16, 2026 · Roll call 478On PassageRED Tape Act
PassedSame bill×3.0
H.J.Res. 213 · Sep 16, 2026 · Roll call 671On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 210 · Sep 15, 2026 · Roll call 666On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 2140 · Sep 15, 2026 · Roll call 664On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassDiesel Emissions Reduction Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 6387 · Apr 22, 2026 · Roll call 496On PassageFIRE Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 6409 · Apr 16, 2026 · Roll call 476On PassageFENCES Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
S.J.Res. 31 · May 22, 2025 · Roll call 142On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 88 · May 1, 2025 · Roll call 113On PassageCongressional disapproval, of the rule submitted by the EPA relating to “California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Advanced Clean Cars II; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”
PassedShared subjects×1.0

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H.J.Res. 89 · Apr 30, 2025 · Roll call 111On PassageCongressional disapproval, of the rule submitted by the EPA relating to “California State Motor Vehicle and Engine and Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; The ’Omnibus’ Low NOX Regulation; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 61 · Mar 5, 2025 · Roll call 57On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 35 · Feb 26, 2025 · Roll call 51On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions”
PassedShared subjects×1.0

Cosponsors

0 active

This bill has no cosponsors.

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.