James Comer

RepublicanDistrict R+23119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score10#429 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact James Comer’s office

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

Call office 202-225-3115 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2410 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1701

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 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 6332.

Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.593 (party median +0.530; rank 140 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 89 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: KY-1 is R+23KY-1 has a partisan lean of R+23 (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: 9.9 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformChair
Majority · 1st in seniority
House Committee on Education and Workforce
Majority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- Subcommittee on Workforce Protections

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Comer

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

Their score of +0.593 is 0.06 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress89
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

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

Swing score for James Comer 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	10	Entrenched
H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov