Sydney Kamlager-Dove

DemocratDistrict D+33119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score48#168 of 433 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Sydney Kamlager-Dove’s office

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

Call office 202-225-7084 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

144 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0537

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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 7 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 7 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 979, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329 and 2 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Strong
Safe Democratic district: CA-37 is D+33CA-37 has a partisan lean of D+33 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.519 (party median -0.393; rank 189 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 97 (avg 96).

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: 3.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Minority · 12th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere
- Subcommittee on South and Central AsiaRanking Member
House Committee on the Judiciary
Minority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet
- Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Kamlager-Dove

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

Their score of -0.519 is 0.13 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

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House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Sydney Kamlager-Dove on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 586Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	59 Topic-matched: Heritage Action, LCV Broke with party on 7% of 137 similar votes	Middle
H.R. 658To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration.