# H.Res. 953 (119th): This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 6703) to ensure access to affordable health insurance; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 498) to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit Federal Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures for minors; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3492) to amend section 116 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to genital and bodily mutilation and chemical castration of minors; and relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 4776) to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more efficient, effective, and timely environmental review process.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: child_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_review. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: health_care. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: health_insurance. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 343: On Ordering the Previous Question. Vote type: procedural.
Roll 344: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bundled measures most directly restrain named harms to minors, namely gender transition procedures and genital mutilation or chemical castration. The procedural resolution is a vehicle for these protective bills. The health insurance and NEPA items are prudential and do not drive the classification toward evil, though they keep the bundle from being purely protective.
Theological note: The two minor-protection measures (H.R. 498 and H.R. 3492) bear on the Scriptural duty to protect children from bodily harm and to uphold the dignity of the body as God's creation. Health insurance access and NEPA streamlining are prudential matters of stewardship and public order, to be judged by general equity rather than as moral verdicts. This is an issue-relevance note, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 343: On Ordering the Previous Question. Yea 204 · Nay 203 · Other 26.
Roll 344: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Yea 213 · Nay 209 · Other 11.

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