BRACE Act

Sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) · 3 active : 1 Republican, 2 Democrats

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: passedSep 15, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Battery Recycling for America’s Competitive Economy Act or the BRACE Act

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This bill modifies the regulation of lithium-ion batteries under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in order to facilitate the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and the recovery of critical minerals. Specifically, the bill directs certain facilities that store lithium-ion batteries prior to recycling them to follow regulations for large quantity handlers of universal waste instead of following the more stringent hazardous waste regulations that currently apply, thereby allowing these facilities to store lithium-ion batteries without needing a special permit.

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

Subjects

Energy storage, supplies, demand
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Solid waste and recycling

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
206Middle 30–70
181Entrenched 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 20.0 (needs 5.0).

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Cosponsors

3 active

Show all 3 cosponsors

Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25)
Robert Menendez (D-NJ-8)
Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1)

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.