Joseph D. Morelle

DemocratDistrict D+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score56#115 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Joseph D. Morelle’s office

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

Call office 202-225-3615 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

570 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3225

Model

v3defaultv2

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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 11 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 11 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 6 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.331 (party median -0.393; rank 70 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 91 (avg 96).

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 dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 7.9 years

Committees

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

House Committee on House AdministrationRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation
House Committee on Appropriations
Minority · 22nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Defense
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library
Minority · 4th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Morelle

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

Their score of -0.331 is 0.06 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress0
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

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

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

Swing score for Joseph D. Morelle on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 131Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	56	Middle
H.R. 139Sunshine Protection Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov