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S. 558119th CongressCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) · 47 active : 27 Republicans, 20 Democrats
Latest action: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
Where it standsBefore the Senate4 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govAntisemitism Awareness Act of 2025
This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights take into consideration the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA's) working definition of antisemitism when reviewing or investigating complaints of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. According to the IHRA's working definition,
antisemitism
is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateMarkup by · Referred to
Subjects
- First Amendment rights
- Higher education
- Religion
How the Senate breaks down
- 4Swing 70–100
- 30Middle 30–70
- 66Entrenched 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
47 activeShow all 47 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Katie Boyd Britt
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.
