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S. 843: Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

S. 843119th CongressAnimals

Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025

Sponsored by Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) · 7 active : 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Held at the desk.

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Where it standsBefore the Senate

Passed Senate

Senate: passedMar 22, 2026
House: next
President: not yet

8 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 and expands the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program to include separate grants to rescue sea turtles. The grants must be used for

the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled sea turtles;

responses to rescue stranded sea turtles;

the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded sea turtles for scientific research or health assessments;

facility operating costs that are directly related to activities to assist sea turtles; or

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development of stranding network capacity where facilities do not exist or are sparse.

In addition, the bill establishes the Sea Turtle Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Rapid Response Fund.

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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Endangered and threatened species
Reptiles
Seashores and lakeshores

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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

How the House breaks down

46Swing 70–100
206Middle 30–70
179Entrenched 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-v2, 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, . 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

Not applicable in the House. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 3.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

H.R. 2560 · Apr 11, 2024 · Roll call 829On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedSea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 9436 · Sep 1, 2026 · Roll call 651On PassageTo amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period for which certain regulations concerning the North Atlantic right whale are effective
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 78 · May 1, 2025 · Roll call 112On PassageCongressional disapproval, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Distinct Population Segment of the Longfin Smelt”
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 776 · Feb 4, 2025 · Roll call 28On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassNutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 764 · Apr 30, 2024 · Roll call 887On PassageTrust the Science Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
S.J.Res. 24 · Jul 27, 2023 · Roll call 381On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat”.
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

7 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.