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S. 383119th CongressEducation
JOBS Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) · 41 active : 17 Republicans, 23 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Where it standsBefore the Senate2 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govJumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students Act of 2025 or the JOBS Act of 2025
This bill expands student eligibility for Pell Grants by establishing the Job Training Federal Pell Grant program.
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Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award a job training Pell Grant to a student who does not have a degree; attends an institution of higher education (IHE); is enrolled in a career and technical education program at an IHE that provides 150 to 600 clock hours of instructional time over a period of 8 to 15 weeks and provides training aligned with high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors (i.e., job training programs); and meets all other eligibility requirements for a Pell Grant.
The bill also specifies that any period during which a student receives a job training Pell Grant counts toward that student's Pell Grant eligibility period.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Higher education
- Licensing and registrations
- Performance measurement
- Student aid and college costs
- Vocational and technical education
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 2Swing 70–100
- 41Middle 30–70
- 57Entrenched 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, 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, , 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
41 activeShow all 41 cosponsors
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Margaret Wood Hassan
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.
