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S. 2256: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 · Congress Swing Tracker
S. 2256·119th Congress·Economics and Public Finance
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
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.
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.
The bill provides appropriations to the Food and Nutrition Service for
Child Nutrition Programs;
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC);
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP);
the Commodity Assistance Program; and
Nutrition Programs Administration.
The bill provides appropriations to the Foreign Agricultural Service for (1) Food for Peace Title II Grants, and (2) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program Grants.
The bill also provides appropriations for (1) the Food and Drug Administration, and (2) the Farm Credit Administration.
Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.
Census and government statistics
Child health
Commodities markets
Commodity Credit Corporation
Community life and organization
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Data collection, sharing, protection
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic development
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Executive agency funding and structure
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Floods and storm protection
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Foreign aid and international relief
Georgia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Hawaii
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Horticulture and plants
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Internet, web applications, social media
Kentucky
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Low- and moderate-income housing
Maine
Maryland
Meat
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority education
Mississippi
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York State
North Carolina
Nutrition and diet
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Public housing
Public utilities and utility rates
Regional and metropolitan planning
Research administration and funding
Rural conditions and development
Seafood
Small business
South Carolina
Telecommunication rates and fees
Tennessee
Texas
User charges and fees
Vermont
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Virginia
Water quality
Water storage
Watersheds
West Virginia
Wetlands
· Lean D+4
On the ballot
Ideology gap
Scorecard gap
Cross-pressure
Similar votes
CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 32% of 248 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
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Swing score
SWING ZONE 70+Entrenched below 30
← More liberalDW-NOMINATE ideology scoreMore conservative →
Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 1 sponsor and cosponsor in the Senate: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the Senate: total similarity weight 143.0 (needs 5.0).
H.R. 6938 · Jan 15, 2026 · Roll call 670On Passage of the BillA bill making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 6938 · Jan 15, 2026 · Roll call 669On the Cloture MotionA bill making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 6938 · Jan 12, 2026 · Roll call 666On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA bill making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 10545 · Dec 21, 2024 · Roll call 691On Passage of the BillA bill making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 9747 · Sep 25, 2024 · Roll call 607On Passage of the BillA bill making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2025, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 436On the MotionA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 435On the MotionA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Motion RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 434On the Motion to ReferA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Motion to Refer RejectedShared subjects×1.0
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H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 433On the MotionA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Motion RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 432On the MotionA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Motion RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Mar 8, 2024 · Roll call 431On the Cloture MotionA bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Nov 1, 2023 · Roll call 284
On Passage of the Bill
A bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Nov 1, 2023 · Roll call 283On the AmendmentTo require congressional review of certain agency rulemaking.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Nov 1, 2023 · Roll call 282On the AmendmentTo ensure that United States diplomats and officials of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission are able to advance efforts seeking compliance by the United Mexican States with the 1944 Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Nov 1, 2023 · Roll call 281On the AmendmentTo reduce the amounts appropriated in divisions B and C and to rescind amounts appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Nov 1, 2023 · Roll call 280On the AmendmentTo require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 31, 2023 · Roll call 279On the AmendmentTo prohibit the use of funds to implement or enforce Executive Order 14019.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 31, 2023 · Roll call 278On the AmendmentTo prohibit using funds to pay the salary of an individual who was nominated to the position of Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and whose nomination was subsequently withdrawn.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 31, 2023 · Roll call 277On the AmendmentTo prohibit the use of funds for providing grants, funding, or any financial benefit to Chinese entities.
Amendment Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 26, 2023 · Roll call 271On the AmendmentTo prohibit earmarks.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 25, 2023 · Roll call 269On the AmendmentTo provide for a period of continuing appropriations in the event of a lapse in appropriations under the normal appropriations process, and establish procedures and consequences in the event of a failure to enact appropriations.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 25, 2023 · Roll call 268On the AmendmentTo prohibit the availability of funds for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report certain information to the Department of Justice for use by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Amendment Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 25, 2023 · Roll call 267On the AmendmentTo prohibit the use of funds to implement the final rule regarding energy efficient standards for certain subsidized housing.
Amendment RejectedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Oct 25, 2023 · Roll call 266On the AmendmentTo prohibit funds appropriated for the Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2024 from being used to enforce a mask mandate in response to the COVID-19 virus.
Amendment Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4366 · Sep 20, 2023 · Roll call 233On the Cloture MotionIn the nature of a substitute.
