All Roll Calls
Yes: 437 • No: 421
119-hr-3617119th CongressWALLET
Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
Sponsored By: Representative James, John [R-MI-10]
Passed House
Summary
Securing the supply of critical energy resources is the bill's main goal. It would require the Department of Energy to define which energy resources are "critical" and to plan how to prevent supply disruptions.
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- The Department of Energy would run ongoing assessments of critical energy resources and their supply chains. These assessments must examine resource criticality, supply-chain vulnerability, diversity, capacity constraints, federal regulations, reliance on imports, and how adversarial nations may exploit markets.
- U.S. producers, processors, and workers would be targeted by required strategies to diversify sources, increase domestic production, separation, processing, and recycling, and to develop substitutes and alternatives. The Secretary must identify material or labor shortages that limit domestic capacity.
- The energy sector would get focused analysis on how supply disruptions affect the development and operation of energy technologies and systems. The Secretary must submit a status report within two years describing assessment results and any regulations, guidance, or actions taken.
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Energy Department plan to secure minerals
This bill would task the Energy Department with securing supplies of key energy minerals. It would define critical energy resources as materials essential to U.S. energy systems with supply chains at risk. The Department would run ongoing checks of these supply chains with federal agencies, states, and energy companies. It would review import reliance, monopoly risks, labor or material shortages, federal rules, and actions by adversarial nations. It would seek to diversify sources, boost U.S. production, separation, and processing, find substitutes, and improve reuse and recycling. The Department would report to the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committees within two years after enactment on progress and actions taken. If enacted, this could lower the chance of supply shocks and support stable energy and technology markets for households.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
James, John [R-MI-10]
MI • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23]
CA • R
Sponsored 5/29/2025
Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]
IA • R
Sponsored 5/29/2025
Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
FL • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9]
IN • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 2/11/2026
On Motion to Recommit
Yes: 214 • No: 215
house vote • 2/11/2026
On Passage
Yes: 223 • No: 206