# S. 1318 (119th): A bill to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes.

A bill to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: cbdc. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: civil_liberties. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: financial_privacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_intelligence. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: metadata_mismatch. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: surveillance. Category: liberty_conscience. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: veterans_memorial. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 142: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 164: On the Motion to Proceed S. 1318. Vote type: cloture.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: If the operative text is the FISA and CBDC summary, the bill both extends a surveillance power (a moral concern under general equity) and adds oversight, referral, criminal penalties for misuse, and approval limits that restrain abuse, plus a CBDC restriction that may limit state financial monitoring. That combination is mixed rather than directly evil or good. If the operative text is the title's memorial-marker program, it is a narrow honesty-in-memorial measure with no clear evil, but the metadata does not establish that. Because the title and summary describe different measures, the polarity cannot be confirmed as a single classification.
Theological note: Issue relevance is mixed. The title raises honoring the dead and truthful recognition of servicemembers' religion and heritage, a matter of justice and honest memorial. The summary raises whether government surveillance of U.S. persons is restrained by accountability or extended without adequate limits, and whether a CBDC restricts coercive state monitoring of ordinary financial life. These require separate review before any candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 142: On Passage. Yea 235 · Nay 191 · Other 4.
Roll 164: On the Motion to Proceed S. 1318. Yea 47 · Nay 52 · Other 1.

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