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.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedSep 15, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

8 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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The 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

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

v3defaultv2

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

How the House breaks down

52Swing 70–100
259Middle 30–70
120Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, 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, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 71.5 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 3400 · Sep 15, 2025 · Roll call 265On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedTRAVEL Act
PassedSame bill×3.0
H.R. 8800 · Jul 22, 2026 · Roll call 638On PassageNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 22, 2026 · Roll call 636On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 22, 2026 · Roll call 635On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 22, 2026 · Roll call 634On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 22, 2026 · Roll call 633On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 629On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 628On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toSame policy area×0.5

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H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 627On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 626On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 625On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8800 · Jul 21, 2026 · Roll call 624On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

12 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.

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Jared F. GoldenDemocrat · Maine 2nd · Lean R+4On the ballot
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Cross-pressure
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 22% of 137 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
94Swing
ContactCall 202-225-6306 Website
2
Marie Gluesenkamp PerezDemocrat · Washington 3rd · Lean R+2On the ballot
Ideology gap
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 24% of 137 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
93Swing
ContactCall 202-225-3536 Website
3
Brian K. FitzpatrickRepublican · Pennsylvania 1st · Lean D+1On the ballot
Ideology gap
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Cross-pressure
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 38% of 137 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
93Swing
ContactCall 202-225-4276
4
Michael LawlerRepublican · New York 17th · Lean D+1On the ballot
Ideology gap
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 18% of 137 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
92Swing
ContactCall 202-225-6506 Website
5
Henry CuellarDemocrat · Texas 28th · Lean R+2On the ballot
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 31% of 138 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
91Swing
ContactCall 202-225-1640 Website
6
Maggie GoodlanderDemocrat · New Hampshire 2nd · Lean D+2House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn the ballot
Ideology gap
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Committee
Broke with party on 7% of 43 similar votes
91Swing
ContactCall
7
Don BaconRepublican · Nebraska 2nd · Lean D+3On the ballot
Ideology gap
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Cross-pressure
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 14% of 138 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
90Swing
ContactCall 202-225-4155 Website
8
Thomas H. KeanRepublican · New Jersey 7th · Lean EVENOn the ballot
Ideology gap
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 15% of 133 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
90Swing
ContactCall 202-225-5361 Website
9
Adam GrayDemocrat · California 13th · Lean R+1On the ballot
Ideology gap
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 32% of 42 similar votes
89Swing
ContactCall 202-225-1947 Website
10
Donald G. DavisDemocrat · North Carolina 1st · Lean R+1On the ballot
Ideology gap
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Cross-pressure
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CommitteeNo committee seatBroke with party on 27% of 138 similar votesTopic-matched scorecard: Heritage Action, LCV
89Swing
ContactCall 202-225-3101 Website