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U.S. Representative · Virginia 5th District
John J. McGuire
RepublicanDistrict R+6119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score29#281 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact John J. McGuire’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1013 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4605
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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1993, H.R. 5058, H.R. 6332.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.706 (party median +0.530; rank 192 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
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 · 25th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMajority · 24th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation
- Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
McGuire← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.706 is 0.18 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House 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 · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 5831To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 306 South Main Street in Waupaca, Wisconsin, as the "Master Sergeant Melvin O. Handrich Post Office Building".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 44
| Middle |