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S. 1032119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Major Richard Star Act
Sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · 80 active : 36 Republicans, 42 Democrats, 2 Independents
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
Where it standsBefore the Senate3 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govMajor Richard Star Act
This bill allows a veteran with a combat-related disability to receive retirement pay, without reduction, concurrently with their disability compensation. This includes veterans with a combat-related disability and fewer than 20 years of creditable service. (Currently, veterans who receive combat-related special compensation and retirement pay are subject to an offset in retirement pay for concurrent receipt of such benefits.)
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Services · 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
- 3Swing 70–100
- 13Middle 30–70
- 84Entrenched 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.
- Ideology gap
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
80 activeShow all 80 cosponsors
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
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.
