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S. 3458119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
Background Check Completion Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · 25 active : 24 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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.govBackground Check Completion Act of 2025
This bill prohibits a licensed gun dealer from transferring a firearm to an unlicensed person prior to the completion of a background check. Current law permits a licensed gun dealer to transfer a firearm to an unlicensed person if a submitted background check remains incomplete after three business days.
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.
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
- 49Middle 30–70
- 45Entrenched 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-v3Bars 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
25 activeShow all 25 cosponsors
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
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.
