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H.R. 3965119th CongressImmigration
PEARL Act
Sponsored by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) · 12 active : 6 Republicans, 6 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate11 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedNov 19, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProviding Emotional Assistance with Relief and Love Act or the PEARL Act
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs for CBP’s Support Canine Program. Support dogs are used for grief assistance, trauma mitigation, and morale.
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 Homeland Security · HouseReported by · Markup by · Discharged from · Referred to
- Border Security and Enforcement · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Animal protection and human-animal relationships
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Law enforcement officers
- Mental health
- Service animals
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 11Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 27Entrenched 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.
- 1
John FettermanDemocrat · Pennsylvania · Lean R+1Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
12 activeShow all 12 cosponsors
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1)
- J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46)
- Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23)
- Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10)
- Monica De La Cruz (R-TX-15)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN-8)
- Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2)
- Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13)
- Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
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.
