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S. 4079119th CongressImmigration
PEARL Act
Sponsored by Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) · 5 active : 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 569.
Where it standsBefore the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProviding Emotional Assistance with Relief and Love Act or the PEARL Act
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP’s Support Canine Program. Support dogs are used for grief assistance, trauma mitigation, and morale.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Animal protection and human-animal relationships
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Law enforcement officers
- Mental health
- Service animals
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 57Middle 30–70
- 35Entrenched 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-v2, 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, . 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
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- David McCormick (R-PA)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- John R. Curtis (R-UT)
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.
