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S. 1204119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
Sponsored by Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · 8 active : 4 Republicans, 4 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedDec 18, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govGold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act
This bill expands eligibility for the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program to the spouses of certain veterans and members of the Armed Forces. Such program is administered by the Department of Labor and generally provides career and employment services to disabled veterans.
The bill expands eligibility for the program to spouses of
persons who died while members of the Armed Forces;
persons who died of a service-connected disability;
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members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, for more than 90 days, are listed as missing in action, captured by a hostile force, or forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by a foreign government power;
persons who have a total permanent disability resulting from a service-connected disability; and
persons who died while an evaluated total disability was in existence.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Military personnel and dependents
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 71Middle 30–70
- 22Entrenched 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
8 activeShow all 8 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
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.
