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S. 160119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) · 8 active : 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
Latest action: Became Public Law No: 119-18.
Where it standsBecame law12 senators score as swing votes
Became law
- Senate: passedApr 8, 2025
- House: passedJun 3, 2025
- President: Signed into lawJun 12, 2025
Summary
, via Congress.govAerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025
This act reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins June 12, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035.
The act also provides that such aircraft may be used to deliver water by air in order to suppress wildfire (the previous authority only provided for the delivery of fire retardant).
The act removes the previous limitation on providing international wildfire suppression assistance with such purchased aircraft.
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.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Services · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Aviation and airports
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 12Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 24Entrenched 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-v3Bars 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.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
8 activeShow all 8 cosponsors
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
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.
