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S. 612: A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes. · Congress Swing Tracker

S. 612119th CongressNative Americans

A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.

Sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) · 1 active : 1 Republican

Latest action: Held at the desk.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Passed Senate

Senate: passedDec 16, 2025
House: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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This bill authorizes grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations for activities related to recreational travel and tourism.

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Specifically, the bill authorizes (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) other federal agencies to make these grants to and enter into agreements with tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

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 Indian Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian social and development programs
Travel and tourism

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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

How the Senate breaks down

9Swing 70–100
62Middle 30–70
29Entrenched 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-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.

1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 0.0 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

No similar roll calls in the Senate

No substantive, contested vote in this chamber matches the bill’s measure, subjects or policy area.

Cosponsors

1 active

Show all 1 cosponsors

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

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.