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U.S. Representative · Maryland 8th District
Jamie Raskin
DemocratDistrict D+30119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score18#397 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Jamie Raskin’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2242 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2008
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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 23 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 23 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 842, H.R. 879, H.R. 1004, H.R. 1151 and 18 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 38 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1004 Love Lives On Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
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
- 9.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on the JudiciaryRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Raskin← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.494 is 0.10 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 351–400 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 4791A bill to abolish the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and for other purposes.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 26
| Entrenched |