Congress moves to make voting easier: Election Day becomes federal holiday
H.R. 154 — Election Day Act · Filed by Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) · 13 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill designates Election Day (the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November) as a federal holiday, giving federal employees the day off and closing federal offices. It amends the federal holiday statute to add Election Day to the list of recognized holidays.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative function is to remove a structural barrier to voting by designating Election Day as a federal holiday, enabling workers to vote without workplace scheduling pressure.
What the text implies
- May increase voter turnout by reducing work-schedule conflicts, particularly benefiting hourly and shift workers with less flexible schedules.
- Creates modest federal payroll cost (one additional paid holiday for ~2.3M federal employees), offset by potential civic participation gains.
- Does not mandate state/local government or private-sector holidays, limiting reach to federal workforce and federal contractors.
Who it affects
A federal holiday on Election Day removes a structural barrier to voting for millions of workers by freeing time to vote without workplace scheduling conflicts. This directly expands voting access and participation, a core democratic good.
Named in the bill
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Title 5 United States Code, Federal employees
Where it stands
13 cosponsors: 12 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $30,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 24 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Brian Fitzpatrick, the sponsor, reported $2,362,211 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Common Cause — $30,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 22, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI scored this bill from its title only — the full text has not been read; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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