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H.R. 3400119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
TRAVEL Act of 2025
Sponsored by Rep. Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-MP) · 12 active : 3 Republicans, 9 Democrats
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: passedSep 15, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThe Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
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Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services.
The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Health · HouseHearings by (subcommittee) · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- American Samoa
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Guam
- Health personnel
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Travel and tourism
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Veterans' medical care
- Virgin Islands
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
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Cosponsors
12 activeShow all 12 cosponsors
- Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS-AL)
- James C. Moylan (R-GU-AL)
- Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10)
- Sarah McBride (D-DE-AL)
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)
- Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
- Pablo Jose Hernández (D-PR-AL)
- Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
- Ed Case (D-HI-1)
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.
