Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025

Introduced Apr 30, 2025Latest action Jul 14, 2026Emergency Management

Plain-English summary

Weatherizing Infrastructure in the North and Terrorism Emergency Readiness Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and conduct an exercise to enhance collective domestic preparedness for and response to a terrorist attack during an extreme cold weather event (e. g. , an event caused by a polar vortex when Arctic air expands southward). The scenario in the exercise must involve a terrorist attack causing cascading effects on critical infrastructure (i.

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People and recorded decisions

Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

Timothy M. Kennedy

Sponsor · Democratic · NY

Bennie G. Thompson

Cosponsor · Democratic · MS

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Official Subjects

Emergency ManagementAtmospheric science and weatherGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsInfrastructure developmentTerrorism

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