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S. 4859119th CongressEducation
Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2026
Sponsored by Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) · 30 active : 29 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
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Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 44Middle 30–70
- 50Entrenched 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
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
30 activeShow all 30 cosponsors
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Jon Ossoff (D-GA)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Raphael G. Warnock
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.
