James R. Baird

RepublicanDistrict R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score27#306 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact James R. Baird’s office

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

Call office 202-225-5037 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2303 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1404

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

Weak
Backs 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: 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 +0.446 (party median +0.530; rank 70 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 84 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: IN-4 is R+15IN-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.

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 Agriculture
Majority · 11th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and BiotechnologyVice Chair
- Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Majority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Africa

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Baird

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

Their score of +0.446 is 0.08 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress84
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

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

Showing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for James R. Baird on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	27	Entrenched
S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov