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S. 3147119th CongressEducation
Keep Head Start Funded Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) · 33 active : 1 Republican, 31 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
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.govKeep Head Start Funded Act of 2025
This bill provides FY2026 continuing appropriations to carry out Head Start programs without interruption during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2026 are not in effect (i.e., a government shutdown).
The Head Start programs provide comprehensive early childhood education and development services to low-income children. The programs seek to promote school readiness through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.
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This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to continue projects and activities under the programs that were funded in FY2025. The appropriations are available until the earliest of
the enactment into law of legislation that provides appropriations (including continuing appropriations) for Head Start,
the enactment into law of legislation that provides regular or continuing appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services without an appropriation for Head Start, or
September 30, 2026.
This bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriations · 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
- 40Middle 30–70
- 54Entrenched 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
33 activeShow all 33 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Peter Welch
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.
