SJM 8013 — Requesting Congress to amend the marine mammal protection act and the migratory bird act to allow the lethal removal of pinnipeds and predatory birds in Puget Sound in a manner similar to the recent changes authorized in the Columbia river to protect endangered salmon populations.

Congress · introduced 2026-01-12

Latest action: 2026-01-12 — First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources.

Action timeline

2025-12-01 · senate — Prefiled for introduction.
2026-01-12 · senate — First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources.

Text versions

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Connected on the graph

Inbound (2)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-12	Fortunato, Phil	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-12	Salomon, Jesse	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Fortunato, Phil (R, state_upper WA-31)	sponsor	0	—	5
2	Salomon, Jesse (D, state_upper WA-32)	cosponsor	0	—	1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

2026-01-12 · sponsored by Fortunato, Phil (sponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-12 · cosponsored by Salomon, Jesse (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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