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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.
Where it standsBefore the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedMar 22, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSea 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
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 59Middle 30–70
- 33Entrenched 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-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, Senate
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Cosponsors
7 activeShow all 7 cosponsors
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- David McCormick (R-PA)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
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.
