HR 495referred119th Congress

Subterranean Border Defense Act

Introduced Jan 16, 2025House billPolicy area: ImmigrationLast action Mar 11, 2025Sponsor: Elijah Crane(R-AZ)

foreignaffairsImmigration

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeBorder Security and Enforcement SubcommitteeHomeland Security Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Mar 11, 2025

What the bill does

Subterranean Border Defense Act This bill requires recurring annual reporting by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on the implementation of a strategic plan to counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations. Currently, CBP is only required to report once no later than one year after the plan's development.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

Undisclosed

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 16, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Mar 10, 2025vote

Thomas Massie voted yea

Mar 10, 2025vote

Daniel Webster voted yea

Mar 10, 2025vote

Jake Auchincloss voted not_voting

Official Congressional Actions

Mar 11, 2025IntroReferral

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Mar 10, 2025Floor

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1045-1046)

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Mar 10, 2025Floor

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 402 - 1 (Roll no. 63). (text: CR H1046)

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Mar 10, 2025Floor

Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

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Lobbying Activity

No lobbying report on the 119th Congress cites this bill.

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Thomas Massie	R	yea	Mar 10, 2025
Daniel Webster	R	yea	Mar 10, 2025
Jake Auchincloss	D	not_voting	Mar 10, 2025
Mark E. Amodei	R	yea	Mar 10, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.