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U.S. Representative · North Carolina 4th District
Valerie P. Foushee
DemocratDistrict D+23119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score14#424 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Valerie P. Foushee’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2452 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3304
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 27 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 27 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 842, H.R. 879, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 22 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 38 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
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Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 3.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMinority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Space and AeronauticsRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Energy
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureMinority · 23rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Aviation
- Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Foushee← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.500 is 0.11 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 351–400 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 3039True Shutdown Fairness ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 18
| Entrenched |