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S. 1027119th CongressTaxation
Military Spouse Hiring Act
Sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) · 39 active : 20 Republicans, 17 Democrats, 2 Independents
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Where it standsBefore the Senate5 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
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Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Finance · SenateReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 5Swing 70–100
- 39Middle 30–70
- 56Entrenched 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
39 activeShow all 39 cosponsors
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Chuck Grassley
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.
