John R. Moolenaar

RepublicanDistrict R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score49#146 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact John R. Moolenaar’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-3561 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

246 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2202

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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 Democrats · 0 signals

No signals in this direction

None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.

Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.448 (party median +0.530; rank 73 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 81 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: MI-2 is R+15MI-2 has a partisan lean of R+15 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Weak
Backs only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 39 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 30, H.Con.Res. 58, H.R. 21, H.R. 22, H.R. 27 and 34 more.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 11.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyChairman
Majority · 1st in seniority
House Committee on Appropriations
Majority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs
- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Moolenaar

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.448 is 0.08 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress81
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Swing score for John R. Moolenaar on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	49	Middle
H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov