Congress orders a new exit road on federal parkland in Virginia.
H.R. 6365 — Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act · Filed by John McGuire (R-VA) · 7 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 2, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of the Interior to permit an exit road. The road goes on Blue Ridge Parkway land near Wintergreen, Virginia. First, the Secretary must study other routes not on federal land. The Secretary must also check fire risks and follow government laws. After these steps, the Secretary must issue the permit.
Who it affects
People in the Wintergreen area get a legal exit route for fires. The Secretary of the Interior must follow the bill's rules.
One thing to notice
The bill requires the Secretary to study other routes and fire risks. But the Secretary must issue the permit anyway.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
7 cosponsors: 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats.
- Dec 2, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 2, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Dec 11, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Jan 22, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jan 22, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2347)”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $139,430 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 46 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
John McGuire, who sponsored the bill, received $418,750 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Parks Conservation Association — $139,430 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of the Interior — The government official in charge of federal land, parks, and nature.
- Blue Ridge Parkway — A scenic road on federal land in Virginia and North Carolina.
- permit — Official written permission to do something, like build a road.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,495 characters) on Jul 5, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. 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 Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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