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H.R. 1663119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
VSAFE Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) · 13 active : 13 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate12 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJan 20, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govVeterans Scam And Fraud Evasion Act of 2025 or the VSAFE Act of 2025
This bill establishes a Veterans Scam and Fraud Evasion Officer within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to be responsible for fraud and scam prevention, reporting, and incident response plans at the VA.
The bill also extends certain loan fee rates through June 23, 2034, under the VA's home loan program.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Oversight and Investigations · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 12Swing 70–100
- 70Middle 30–70
- 18Entrenched 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
13 activeShow all 13 cosponsors
- David G. Valadao (R-CA-22)
- Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Mike Bost (R-IL-12)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)
- Tom Cole (R-OK-4)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21)
- Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26)
- Tom Barrett (R-MI-7)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16)
- Vince Fong (R-CA-20)
- Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7)
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.
