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S. 5539: Affordability is Access Act of 2026 · Congress Swing Tracker

S. 5539119th CongressHealth

Affordability is Access Act of 2026

Sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) · 32 active : 31 Democrats, 1 Independent

Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Hasn’t passed either chamber

Senate: next
House: not yet
President: not yet

6 senators score as swing votes

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.

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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-v3

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.

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Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine · Lean D+4Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 4.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

S.J.Res. 197 · Sep 29, 2026 · Roll call 910On the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health Program".
Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S.J.Res. 198 · Jul 16, 2026 · Roll call 858On the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to "Medicare Program; Implementation of Prior Authorization for Select Services for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model".
Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S.J.Res. 84 · Jan 13, 2026 · Roll call 667On the Motion to ProceedA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relating to "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Market Integrity and Affordability".
Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 3386 · Dec 11, 2025 · Roll call 643On the Cloture MotionA bill to provide a health savings account contribution to certain enrollees, to reduce health care costs, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 4445 · Sep 17, 2024 · Roll call 594On the Cloture MotionA bill to protect and expand nationwide access to fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization.
Cloture Motion RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 4554 · Jul 10, 2024 · Roll call 563On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA bill to express support for protecting access to reproductive health care after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision on June 24, 2022.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 4445 · Jun 13, 2024 · Roll call 549On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA bill to protect and expand nationwide access to fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5
S. 4381 · Jun 5, 2024 · Roll call 542On Cloture on the Motion to ProceedA bill to protect an individual's ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedSame policy area×0.5

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S.J.Res. 57 · May 15, 2024 · Roll call 520On the Joint ResolutionA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Treasury relating to "Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds".
Joint Resolution DefeatedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

32 active

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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.