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U.S. Representative · Iowa 4th District
Randy Feenstra
RepublicanDistrict R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score48#171 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Randy Feenstra’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2434 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1504
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 · 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
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.467 (party median +0.530; rank 84 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 85 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: IA-4 is R+15IA-4 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.
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 38 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 96, H.R. 21, H.R. 22, H.R. 23, H.R. 27 and 33 more.
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
- 5.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 13th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Ways and MeansMajority · 20th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Social Security
- Subcommittee on Work and Welfare
- Subcommittee on Tax
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Feenstra← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.467 is 0.06 to the left 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 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.J.Res. 55A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration relating to "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Hydrogen Vehicles; Compressed Hydrogen Storage System Integrity; Incorporation by Reference".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 55
| Middle |