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S. 355119th CongressHealth
FDA Modernization Act 3.0
Sponsored by Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) · 9 active : 4 Republicans, 4 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedDec 16, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govFDA Modernization Act 3.0
This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publish an interim final rule implementing a provision of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 that authorized the use of certain alternatives to animal testing to support investigational use of a new drug.
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The rule must replace references to animal tests, data, studies, models, and research with references to nonclinical tests, data, studies, models, and research throughout the FDA’s regulations governing investigational new drug applications, and may make other changes to the regulations as appropriate.
The rule must be published within one year of the bill’s enactment, and must take immediate effect as an interim final rule.
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.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Medical research
- Research administration and funding
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 64Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 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.
- 1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine · Lean D+4Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
9 activeShow all 9 cosponsors
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
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.
