Donald S. Beyer

DemocratDistrict D+26119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score30#287 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Donald S. Beyer’s office

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

Call office 202-225-4376 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1226 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4608

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 6 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 6 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 33, H.R. 5284, H.R. 6317, H.R. 7613, H.R. 7971 and 1 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Strong
Safe Democratic district: VA-8 is D+26VA-8 has a partisan lean of D+26 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.392 (party median -0.393; rank 105 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 7 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).

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: 11.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Ways and Means
Minority · 12th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Trade
- Subcommittee on Tax
Joint Economic Committee
Minority · 7th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Beyer

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

Their score of -0.392 is 0.00 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress7
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

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 Donald S. Beyer 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	30	Entrenched
S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov