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S 4538Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act

Congress · introduced 2025-02-06

Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_SENATE_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO FINANCE
  2. · senate REFERRED TO FINANCE

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Inbound (12)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-02-06John Liusponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Shelley Mayercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Michael Gianariscosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Michelle Hincheycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Toby Ann Staviskycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Robert Jacksoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Luis R. Sepúlvedacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Pete Harckhamcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Jeremy Zellnercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Julia Salazarcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06Leroy Comriecosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-06José M. Serranocosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1John Liu (, state_upper NY-16)sponsor05
2Jeremy Zellner (, state_upper NY-61)cosponsor01
3José M. Serrano (, state_upper NY-29)cosponsor01
4Julia Salazar (, state_upper NY-18)cosponsor01
5Leroy Comrie (, state_upper NY-14)cosponsor01
6Luis R. Sepúlveda (, state_upper NY-32)cosponsor01
7Michael Gianaris (, state_upper NY-12)cosponsor01
8Michelle Hinchey (, state_upper NY-41)cosponsor01
9Pete Harckham (, state_upper NY-40)cosponsor01
10Robert Jackson (, state_upper NY-31)cosponsor01
11Shelley Mayer (, state_upper NY-37)cosponsor01
12Toby Ann Stavisky (, state_upper NY-11)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Leroy Comrie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by José M. Serrano (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Michelle Hinchey (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Toby Ann Stavisky (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Luis R. Sepúlveda (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Robert Jackson (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Pete Harckham (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Shelley Mayer (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Jeremy Zellner (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  11. 2025-02-06 · sponsored by John Liu (sponsor) · sponsorship
  12. 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Michael Gianaris (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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