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S. 850119th CongressImmigration
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
Sponsored by Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) · 4 active : 3 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedAug 5, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govNorthern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to regularly perform a threat analysis of the northern U.S. border.
The analysis must be performed every three years and include terroristic and criminal threats, recent changes in apprehensions, and improvements needed to prevent terrorism and reduce criminal activity.
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DHS must update its northern border strategy not later than September 2, 2026, and every five years thereafter, incorporating the results from the latest threat analysis. DHS must also provide a classified briefing to the appropriate congressional committees.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) must develop performance metrics to assess the AMO’s effectiveness at securing the northern border between ports of entry in air and maritime environments.
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 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Canada
- Congressional oversight
- Government studies and investigations
- North America
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 60Middle 30–70
- 31Entrenched 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.
- 1
John FettermanDemocrat · Pennsylvania · Lean R+1Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
4 activeShow all 4 cosponsors
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- John Hoeven (R-ND)
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.
