S. 1503: Equality Act · Congress Swing Tracker

S. 1503119th CongressCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Equality Act

Sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) · 46 active : 44 Democrats, 2 Independents

Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Hasn’t passed either chamber

Senate: next
House: not yet
President: not yet

3 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

The Congressional Research Service has not published a summary of this bill yet.

Committees and subjects

Committees

Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReferred to

Subjects

No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the Senate breaks down

3Swing 70–100
38Middle 30–70
59Entrenched 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.

1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 0.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

S.J.Res. 4 · Apr 27, 2023 · Roll call 99On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

46 active

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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.