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H.R. 6893119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act
Sponsored by Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) · 7 active : 2 Republicans, 5 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 14, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govChesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act
This bill reauthorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Chesapeake Bay Office and modifies requirements concerning the office and its activities, such as new consultation requirements. (The office partners with the Chesapeake Bay Program to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay.)
The bill also provides statutory authority for the office's Chesapeake Bay watershed education and training program for elementary and secondary schools.
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Further, the bill authorizes the office to establish a program to support coordinated management, protection, characterization, and restoration of priority Chesapeake Bay habitats and living resources.
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
- Water, Wildlife and Fisheries · HouseDischarged from · Hearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Air quality
- Aquaculture
- Aquatic ecology
- Atmospheric science and weather
- Chesapeake Bay
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Delaware
- Department of Commerce
- Education programs funding
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 76Middle 30–70
- 16Entrenched 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-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
7 activeShow all 7 cosponsors
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
- Sarah Elfreth (D-MD-3)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Glenn Ivey (D-MD-4)
- Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4)
- April McClain Delaney (D-MD-6)
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.
