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S. 4952119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
Protecting American Taxpayers Act
Sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) · 29 active : 29 Republicans
Latest action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 452.
Where it standsBefore the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThe Congressional Research Service has not published a summary of this bill yet.
Committees and subjects
Committees
No committee referrals recorded
Congress.gov lists no committee activity for this bill yet, so no member gets the gatekeeper bonus in swing-v3.
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
- 9Swing 70–100
- 51Middle 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-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
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Cosponsors
29 activeShow all 29 cosponsors
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Bernie Moreno (R-OH)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- David McCormick (R-PA)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Jon Husted (R-OH)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
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.
