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S. 702119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Veterans Mental Health and Addiction Therapy Quality of Care Act
Sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) · 8 active : 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 287.
Where it standsBefore the Senate5 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govVeterans Mental Health and Addiction Therapy Quality of Care Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter into an agreement with an independent and objective organization to study the difference in quality of mental health and addiction therapy care provided by the VA compared to non-VA providers across various modalities. The organization must publish its findings publicly.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Hearings by (full committee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Government studies and investigations
- Health care quality
- Mental health
- Veterans' medical care
How the Senate breaks down
- 5Swing 70–100
- 57Middle 30–70
- 38Entrenched 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
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Cosponsors
8 activeShow all 8 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- 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.
