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S. 201119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
ACES Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) · 3 active : 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Became Public Law No: 119-32.
Where it standsBecame law8 senators score as swing votes
Became law
- Senate: passedJun 3, 2025
- House: passedJul 21, 2025
- President: Signed into lawAug 14, 2025
Summary
, via Congress.govACES Act of 2025
This act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study and report on the prevalence and mortality of cancers among veterans who served on active duty as aircrew members and regularly flew in fixed-wing 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 Veterans' Affairs · SenateDischarged from · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Aviation and airports
- Cancer
- Congressional oversight
- Government studies and investigations
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Medical research
- Research administration and funding
- Veterans' medical care
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 60Middle 30–70
- 32Entrenched 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-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
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.
