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S. 567119th CongressArmed Forces and National Security
First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
Sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · 67 active : 25 Republicans, 40 Democrats, 2 Independents
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate0 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedJun 11, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govFirst Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
This bill provides for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to the First Rhode Island Regiment, collectively, in recognition of their dedicated service during the Revolutionary War.
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.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · SenateDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional tributes
- Libraries and archives
- Military history
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Rhode Island
- U.S. history
How the Senate breaks down
- 0Swing 70–100
- 21Middle 30–70
- 79Entrenched 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-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
- Ideology gap
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
67 activeShow all 67 cosponsors
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Marsha Blackburn
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.
