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U.S. Representative · Illinois 6th District
Sean Casten
DemocratDistrict D+3119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score34#246 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Sean Casten’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2440 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1306
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 · 3 signals
- StrongBacks 9 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 9 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 909, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329, H.R. 2294 and 4 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1262 Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1329 Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2294 To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.
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
- 7.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 14th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
- Joint Economic CommitteeMinority · 9th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Casten← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.625 is 0.23 to the left 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 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.J.Res. 42Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | NayProjected at the vote: 48 Middle (today: 45) |