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U.S. Representative · Arkansas 2nd District
J. French Hill
RepublicanDistrict R+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score44#200 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact J. French Hill’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1533 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0402
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 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 · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.435 (party median +0.530; rank 66 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 79 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 32 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 30, H.Con.Res. 96, H.J.Res. 87, H.J.Res. 88, H.J.Res. 89 and 27 more.
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 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 Financial ServicesChairMajority · 1st in seniority
- House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cyber
- Subcommittee on National Intelligence Enterprise
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Hill← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.435 is 0.10 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress79House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1450OFAC Licensure for Investigators ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 64
| Middle |
| H.R. 4423No New Burma Funds Act |