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U.S. Representative · Michigan 8th District
Kristen McDonald Rivet
DemocratDistrict R+1119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score81#29 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Kristen McDonald Rivet’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1408 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2208
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 · 6 signals
- StrongBroke with Democrats on 47 of 349 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Democrats on 47 of the 349 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (13%). The median House Democratic broke on 4%; this member ranks 16 of 214 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1501 Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6955 Main Street Capital Access Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 139 Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6047 Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 6260 Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets 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
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMinority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureMinority · 27th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Rivet← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.244 is 0.15 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 151–200 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 8193To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 86
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