Congress is out of session until Monday, November 9 for the midterm campaign. No new roll-call votes until then; the last were the House on Sep 16 and the Senate on Sep 30.

Issues / Issue · Sep 16 – Oct 5, 2026

Data Center Transparency and Community Empowerment Acts

Six Democratic members of Congress are advancing legislation and criticism regarding data center development and community oversight. Members introduced bills requiring environmental impact reporting, community involvement in projects, and restrictions on federal land use. Others pressed the EPA to maintain public input rules for air permits and criticized deregulation of environmental protections.

AI summary of the releases below · Oct 7, 2026

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24Members · 8 D · 16 R
21Actions · 8 D · 13 R
18States & territories · LA · MI · NE · FL lead
4Bills named

How the conversation moved

Democrat Republican · one dot = one action
Action typeWk ofSep 6Wk ofSep 1319Wk ofSep 20Wk ofSep 271Wk ofOct 41Total
Sent lettersTo agencies, companies, officials 1
StatementsResponses to news 2
PraisedCredit for a decision or person 4
Filed or pushed billsNew, reintroduced or passed +212
Other 2

Emerging events

1 threads · 19 of 21 actions

Ratepayer Protection Act

22 members

  1. Sep 17Pappas voted to pass bipartisan bill protecting consumers from data center utility cost increases.
  2. Sep 17Schneider voted for bill requiring data centers to pay for electricity to protect ratepayers.
  3. Sep 17Heinrich objected to Ratepayer Protection Act; offered GRID Savings Act requiring data centers to pay for grid upgrades.
  4. Sep 17Simpson (R) supported bill requiring data centers to pay for their own electricity costs.
  5. Sep 18Ricketts (R) announced support for Ratepayer Protection Act to prevent data center cost shifts to utility customers.

19 actions →

What each party did · Democrats 8 · Republicans 13

  • 1Sent letters0
  • 1Statements1
  • 0Praised4
  • 5Filed or pushed bills7
  • 1Other1

Most active

Actions each member took in this window

  1. RMike Johnson LA2
  2. DMark Kelly AZ1
  3. DDebbie Dingell MI1
  4. RPete Ricketts NE1
  5. RMichael Simpson ID1
  6. DMartin Heinrich NM1
  7. DBradley Scott Schneider IL1
  8. DChris Pappas NH1

By state

Actions by members from each state, split by party. A joint release counts once for each member on it.

  • LA3
  • MI2
  • NE2
  • FL2
  • KY2
  • CO2
  • AZ1
  • ID1

+10 more with fewer actions

Every action

21 actions · 25 releases
  1. Oct 5, 2026
    • Letter

      DKelly AZ

      Pressed EPA and data center companies to maintain public input rules for air permits.

      Release ↗

  2. Oct 1, 2026
  3. Sep 18, 2026
  4. Sep 17, 2026
  5. Sep 16, 2026

Summaries, action types, amounts and positions are read from each press release by AI and can be wrong. Joint releases (same day, same action, matching title or amount) count once. How it works