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District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025

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Policy area: Law

Latest action 2025-09-18 · Received in the Senate. · showing text version Engrossed in House of 2025-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sponsor

Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17] (R-TX)

2 cosponsors

Recent actions

• 2025-09-18 — Received in the Senate.
• 2025-09-17 — The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
• 2025-09-17 — Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4922, H.R. 5143, H.R. 5140, H.R. 5125, H.R. 1047, H.R. 3015 and H.R. 3062. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4922, H.R. 5143, H.R. 5140, H.R. 5125, H.R. 1047, H.R. 3015, and H.R. 3062 under a closed rule, and provides for a motion to recommit on each measure.
• 2025-09-17 — Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 211 (Roll no. 274). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H4375: 5)
• 2025-09-17 — POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 5125, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill, and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Garcia (CA) demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
• 2025-09-17 — On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 211 (Roll no. 274). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H4375)
• 2025-09-17 — Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
• 2025-09-17 — DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 5125.
• 2025-09-17 — Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 707. (consideration: CR H4375)
• 2025-09-17 — Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4394)

Subjects

• Advisory bodies
• District of Columbia
• Judges
• Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
• State and local courts

Related bills

• Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4922) to limit youth offender status in the District of Columbia to individuals 18 years of age or younger, to direct the Attorney General of the District of Columbia to establish and operate a publicly accessible website containing updated statistics on juvenile crime in the District of Columbia, to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to prohibit the Council of the District of Columbia from enacting changes to existing criminal liability sentences, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5143) to establish standards for law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia to engage in vehicular pursuits of suspects, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5140) to lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5125) to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to terminate the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1047) to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reform the interconnection queue process for the prioritization and approval of certain projects, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3015) to reestablish the National Coal Council in the Department of Energy to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Energy on matters related to coal and the coal industry, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3062) to establish a more uniform, transparent, and modern process to authorize the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of international border-crossing facilities for the import and export of oil and natural gas and the transmission of electricity; and for other purposes.
• District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act

Text sections (3 indexed passages)

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