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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 5971

Service Academies District of Columbia Equality Act

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Introduced 2025-11-07Topic: veterans military · higher education

Summary

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This bill would change federal law to raise the number of people from the District of Columbia who may be appointed to three U.S. military service academies. At the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, the number set in the law would change from five to fifteen.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-11-07HouseReferred to the House Committee on Armed Services.refer
2025-11-07Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1044)
2025-11-07Introduced in Houseintroduce
2025-11-07Introduced in Houseintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.