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S. 2544119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
GUARD Act
Sponsored by Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) · 14 active : 7 Republicans, 6 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 317.
Where it standsBefore the Senate5 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govGuarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act or the GUARD Act
This bill allows state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and grantees that receive funds from certain law enforcement grant programs to use the funds to investigate general financial fraud, elder financial fraud, and pig butchering.
Pig butchering
refers to a confidence and investment fraud in which a victim is gradually lured into transferring increasing amounts of money, generally in the form of cryptocurrency, into a fake virtual investment.
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The bill allows federal law enforcement agencies to assist state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and fusion centers in the use of tracing tools for blockchain and related technology tools.
Finally, the bill requires the Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to report on efforts and recommendations related to general financial fraud, elder financial fraud, pig butchering, and scams. The bill also requires Treasury and FinCEN to report on the state of scams in the United States, including information about crimes committed, federal civil and criminal enforcement actions, and federal efforts to address the crimes.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Congressional oversight
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Intergovernmental relations
- Law enforcement administration and funding
How the Senate breaks down
- 5Swing 70–100
- 55Middle 30–70
- 40Entrenched 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-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . 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
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
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.
