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S. 761119th CongressNative Americans
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) · 26 active : 25 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 139.
Where it standsBefore the Senate4 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govTruth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States within the legislative branch and sets forth its powers, duties, and membership.
Among other duties, the commission must investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies (federal policies under which American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools).
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Further, the commission must develop recommendations on ways to (1) protect unmarked graves and accompanying land protections; (2) support repatriation and identify the tribal nations from which children were taken; and (3) discontinue the removal of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children from their families and tribal communities by state social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption agencies.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Adoption and foster care
- Advisory bodies
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Child care and development
- Child safety and welfare
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family relationships
- Federal-Indian relations
- Hawaii
- Historical and cultural resources
- Human rights
- Indian social and development programs
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- Language arts
- Minority education
- Public participation and lobbying
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 4Swing 70–100
- 48Middle 30–70
- 48Entrenched 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
26 activeShow all 26 cosponsors
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
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.
