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H.R. 8880119th CongressCommerce
Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026
Sponsored by Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA) · 1 active : 1 Republican
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJun 23, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSmall Business Cybersecurity Assistance Evaluation Act of 2026
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to study current federal cybersecurity initiatives, programs, resources, tools, and services that assist small businesses to identify and prepare for cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
The study must include information about the most common cyberattacks affecting small businesses and recommendations for improving the effectiveness, awareness, and coordination of federal cybersecurity initiatives and programs.
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 Small Business · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Performance measurement
- Small business
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 63Middle 30–70
- 27Entrenched 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-v3, 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, , 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
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Robert P. Bresnahan (R-PA-8)
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.
