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U.S. Representative · Arkansas 4th District
Bruce Westerman
RepublicanDistrict R+20119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score12#418 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Bruce Westerman’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office202 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0404
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 · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.543 (party median +0.530; rank 115 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 85 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: AR-4 is R+20AR-4 has a partisan lean of R+20 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 18 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 21, H.R. 22, H.R. 27, H.R. 38, H.R. 425 and 13 more.
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
- 11.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Natural ResourcesChairMajority · 1st in seniority
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureMajority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Westerman← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.543 is 0.01 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress85House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 201–250 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4Rescissions Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | YeaProjected at the vote: 3 Entrenched (today: 12) | 12 | Entrenched |