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S. 3897119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers' Benefit Program Expansion Act of 2026
Sponsored by Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · 14 active : 4 Republicans, 10 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate4 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedAug 7, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govThe Congressional Research Service has not published a summary of this bill yet.
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 the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Disability assistance
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Government studies and investigations
- Law enforcement officers
How the Senate breaks down
- 4Swing 70–100
- 57Middle 30–70
- 39Entrenched 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-v2Bars 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.
- Ideology gap
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Susan M. Collins (R-ME)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
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.
