Tim Burchett

RepublicanDistrict R+17119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score34#248 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Tim Burchett’s office

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

Call office 202-225-5435 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1122 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4202

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 Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Backs 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 144, H.R. 1266.

Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.664 (party median +0.530; rank 174 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: TN-2 is R+17TN-2 has a partisan lean of R+17 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

Bill-specific inputs

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: 7.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Majority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa
- Subcommittee on South and Central Asia
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Majority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Delivering on Government EfficiencyChairman
- Subcommittee on Government Operations

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Burchett

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

Their score of +0.664 is 0.13 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress94
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

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

Swing score for Tim Burchett on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
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.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	34	Middle
H.R. 659Veterans Law Judge Experience Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov