One of the congressional bills to mandate use of ranked choice voting in all congressional elections now has a bill number, HR 6589. It has 16 sponsors. The text of the bill is still not up on the congressional website.

The lead sponsor is Jaime Raskin of Maryland. It is co-sponsored by representatives from California (Scott Peters and Eric Swalwell), Florida (Summer Lee), Illinois (Delia Ramirez), Maine (Chellie Pingree), Massachusetts (Seth Moulton and Ayanna Pressley), Michigan (Shri Thanedar), Minnesota (Kelly Morrison, Ilhan Omar, and Angie Craig), New Mexico (Teresa Leger Fernandez), Tennessee (Steve Cohen), Virginia (Donald Beyer), and Washington (Pramila Jayapal).

All the sponsors are Democrats. It is somewhat disappointing that there are no co-sponsors from New York, given that New York City uses ranked choice voting for citywide office primaries.

The identical U.S. Senate bill sponsored by Peter Welch of Vermont still doesn’t have a bill number.

The bills would outlaw using top-two in congressional elections, although states could still use top-four systems.