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H.R. 217: CHIP IN for Veterans Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 217119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security

CHIP IN for Veterans Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) · 6 active : 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedMay 19, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

12 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Communities Helping Invest through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act or the CHIP IN for Veterans Act

This bill makes permanent, starting December 16, 2026, the pilot program under which the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may accept donations of property or facilities from certain nonfederal entities (e.g., state authorities or private entities). The bill also removes the limit on the number of donations that the VA may accept under the program.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Health · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Charitable contributions
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the Senate breaks down

12Swing 70–100
70Middle 30–70
18Entrenched 0–30

Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.

Key players in the Senate

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

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Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine · Lean D+4On the ballot

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the Senate: total similarity weight 26.5 (needs 5.0).

S. 4784 · Jul 14, 2026 · Roll call 854On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedAn original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 1318 · Jun 5, 2026 · Roll call 823On the Motion to ProceedA bill to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes.
Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S.J.Res. 103 · Mar 25, 2026 · Roll call 731On the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to "Reproductive Health Services".
Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 1071 · Dec 17, 2025 · Roll call 648On the MotionA bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
S. 1071 · Dec 15, 2025 · Roll call 647On the Cloture MotionA bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
S. 1071 · Dec 11, 2025 · Roll call 646On the Motion to ProceedA bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of Fernando V. Cota from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas, and for other purposes.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 570On Passage of the BillAn original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedSame policy area×0.5
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 569On the AmendmentTo limit the use of Federal law enforcement officers for crowd control, and for other purposes.
Amendment RejectedSame policy area×0.5

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S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 568On the AmendmentTo reduce the bloated Pentagon budget by 10 percent and instead expand veteran dental care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Amendment RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 567On the AmendmentTo limit the provision of support by the Armed Forces to civilian law enforcement activities.
Amendment RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 566On the AmendmentTo amend title 32, United States Code, to clarify certain limitations on full-time National Guard duty performed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.
Amendment RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 2296 · Oct 9, 2025 · Roll call 565

Cosponsors

6 active

Show all 6 cosponsors

Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
David G. Valadao (R-CA-22)
Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13)
Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.