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U.S. Representative · Kansas 2nd District
Derek Schmidt
RepublicanDistrict R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score37#218 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Derek Schmidt’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1223 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1602
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 Democrats · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 6 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 6 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1266, H.R. 1269, H.R. 1340, H.R. 4206, H.R. 8882 and 1 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1266 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1269 Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1340 More Homes on the Market Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4206 CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 8882 Main Street Competes Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
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
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 28th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Military Personnel
- Subcommittee on Readiness
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- House Committee on Small BusinessMajority · 12th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains
- Subcommittee on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Schmidt← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.694 is 0.16 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress85House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 301–350 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4499To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 43
| Middle |