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U.S. Representative · California 50th District
Scott H. Peters
DemocratDistrict D+16119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score67#56 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Scott H. Peters’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2369 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0550
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 13 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 13 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 309, H.R. 452, H.R. 471, H.R. 842, H.R. 909 and 8 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 309 National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 471 Fix Our Forests Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
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
- 13.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMinority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Environment
- House Committee on the BudgetMinority · 4th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Peters← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.194 is 0.20 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress7House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7567Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | NayProjected at the vote: 64 Middle (today: 74) | 74 |