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S. 1227119th CongressHealth
ABC Act
Sponsored by Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) · 26 active : 13 Republicans, 13 Democrats
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govAlleviating Barriers for Caregivers Act or the ABC Act
This bill requires federal agencies to review and modify the administrative processes related to Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Social Security programs in order to streamline these processes for family caregivers.
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Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) must review processes related to eligibility determinations, applications, forms, and communications for these programs and identify ways to simplify and streamline these processes for family caregivers (e.g., reducing the need for family caregivers to submit the same information for multiple programs). The CMS and SSA must solicit input from family caregivers and state and regional organizations, implement any identified improvements, and report on these efforts to Congress.
In addition, the CMS must issue a letter to state Medicaid and CHIP programs that encourages states to conduct a similar review and that provides potential improvements.
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
- 6Swing 70–100
- 47Middle 30–70
- 47Entrenched 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
26 activeShow all 26 cosponsors
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- John Boozman
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.
