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H.J.Res. 20119th CongressEnergy
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters".
Sponsored by Rep. Gary J. Palmer (R-AL) · 29 active : 29 Republicans
Latest action: Became Public Law No: 119-6.
Where it standsBecame law65 representatives score as swing votes
Became law
- House: passedFeb 27, 2025
- Senate: passedApr 10, 2025
- President: Signed into lawMay 9, 2025
Summary
, via Congress.govThis joint resolution nullifies the rule titled
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters
and submitted by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 26, 2024. Under the rule, DOE adopted amended energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters to achieve the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that DOE determined was technologically feasible and economically justified.
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 PassagePassed221 yea, 198 nayFebruary 27, 2025 · Roll call 53
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 35 | 7 | 20% |
| Middle | 199 | 0 | 0% |
| Entrenched | 113 | 0 | 0% |
| Insufficient data |
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Energy
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Lighting, heating, cooling
- Oil and gas
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
- 69Middle 30–70
- 23Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
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. Where the Senate has voted, each member’s appears with the projection made before it.
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Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
29 activeShow all 29 cosponsors
- Andrew Ogles (R-TN-5)
- Barry Moore (R-AL-1)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2)
- Eric Burlison (R-MO-7)
- Jack Bergman (R-MI-1)
- James R. Baird (R-IN-4)
- Jeff Hurd (R-CO-3)
- Julia Letlow (R-LA-5)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7)
- Mike Collins (R-GA-10)
- Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6)
- Derek Schmidt (R-KS-2)
- Ben Cline (R-VA-6)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6)
- Brandon Gill
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.
