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119th Congress International Affairs

H.R. 36: MEGOBARI Act

Passed HouseMay 5, 2025

  1. Introduced (completed)Jan 3, 2025
  2. Passed House (completed)May 5, 2025, 349–42
  3. Passed Senate (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
  5. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Introduced in House, Jan 3, 2025

This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign persons, including Georgian government officials, who are undermining Georgia's security or stability.

Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions and authorizes the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person the President determines is involved with actions or policies to undermine Georgia's security or stability. Immediate family members of a sanctioned individual are also subject to these sanctions if they benefited from the sanctioned individual's conduct.

The bill also requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions on the following foreign persons if the President determines such persons knowingly engaged in significant acts of corruption or acts of violence or intimidation in relation to the blocking of Euro-Atlantic integration in Georgia:

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  • any individual who served as a member of the Georgian parliament or as a senior official of a Georgian political party on or after January 1, 2014;
  • any individual who is serving as an official in a leadership position on behalf of the Georgian government; and
  • any immediate family member of such officials who benefited from their conduct.

Additionally, for the purpose of potential imposition of sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the President must determine whether there are foreign persons who, on or after the bill's enactment, have engaged in (1) significant corruption in Georgia, or (2) acts to undermine Georgia's security or stability.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Key votes

House final vote, May 5, 2025

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Passed 349–42

Yea 349two-thirds 261Nay 42

  • Democrats181 yea, 8 nay
  • Republicans167 yea, 34 nay
  • Independents1 yea, 0 nay

Broke with their party: Tony Wied (R-WI), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Michael Rulli (R-OH), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Chip Roy (R-TX), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Scott Perry (R-PA), Robert Onder (R-MO) and Andrew Ogles (R-TN) voted Nay; and 32 more

See how all 391 members voted

Showing 433 of 433 members

Yea 349

Republicans (167)

Democrats (181)

Independents (1)

Nay 42

Democrats (8) broke with their party

Not voting 42

Senate

Not yet voted

Passed the House May 5, 2025. Awaiting Senate action.

Roll calls

1 vote on this bill

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  • May 5, 2025HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassFinal passagePassed, yea-nay 349–42
    Roll call 116 tally by party
    PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
    Democrats1818024
    Republicans16734018
    Independents1000
    Total34942042

    House roll call 116: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Passed.

    42 crossed party lines: 8 Democrats, 34 Republicans

    How each member voted (433)

Amendments

0 offered

No amendments were offered to this bill.

Cosponsors

18

Bipartisan support.

Who scored on this bill

360 points earned
  1. 1Joe Wilson R-SC SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, passed House3 events+36
  2. 2Andy Biggs R-AZ1 maverick vote1 event+6
  3. 2Lauren Boebert R-CO1 maverick vote1 event+6
  4. 2Josh Brecheen R-OK1 maverick vote1 event+6
  5. 2Tim Burchett R-TN1 maverick vote1 event+6
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Introductions and cosponsorships count toward weekly caps and show no points.

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History

  1. May 5, 2025Passed the House, 349–42.
  2. Jan 3, 2025Introduced in the House by Joe Wilson.
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  1. May 6, 2025Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.
  2. May 5, 2025Mr. Mast moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  3. May 5, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1823-1828)
  4. May 5, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 36.
  5. May 5, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  6. May 5, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1840-1841)
  7. May 5, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 349 - 42 (Roll no. 116). (text: CR H1824-1826)
  8. May 5, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 349 - 42 (Roll no. 116). (text: CR H1824-1826)
  9. May 5, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  10. Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House
  11. Jan 3, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.