House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act of 2025
Official title: To designate certain National Forest System land and certain public land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Madeleine Dean D-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 27, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 27, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2420.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 56, March 27, 2025, Page H1338):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 27, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2420, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2420
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of May 22, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
13 cosponsors — 13 Democrats
0 of 13 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Salud Carbajal (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Madeleine Dean.
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- H.R. 6626 (119th) PFAS Accountability Act of 2025
- H.R. 7209 (119th) TRAIN Act
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.