HR 5125introduced119th Congress

District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025

Introduced Sep 4, 2025House billPolicy area: LawLast action Sep 18, 2025Sponsor: Pete Sessions(R-TX)

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Oversight and Government Reform Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Sep 18, 2025

What the bill does

District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act This bill terminates the District of Columbia (DC) Judicial Nomination Commission. Currently, the commission recommends to the President nominees for judges for DC's Superior Court and Court of Appeals, who must then be confirmed by the Senate. The commission also appoints the chief judges for these courts. The bill terminates the commission's involvement in nominations and requires the President to appoint the chief judges.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

Undisclosed

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Sep 4, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Sep 17, 2025vote

Jake Auchincloss voted nay

Sep 17, 2025vote

Mark E. Amodei voted yea

Sep 17, 2025vote

Alma S. Adams voted nay

Official Congressional Actions

Sep 18, 2025IntroReferral

Received in the Senate.

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Sep 17, 2025Floor

DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 5125.

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Sep 17, 2025Floor

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4394)

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Sep 17, 2025Floor

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)

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Sep 17, 2025

Lobbying Activity

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

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Jake Auchincloss	D	nay	Sep 17, 2025
Mark E. Amodei	R	yea	Sep 17, 2025
Alma S. Adams	D	nay	Sep 17, 2025
Pete Aguilar	D	nay	Sep 17, 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.