Gary J. Palmer

RepublicanDistrict R+19119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score38#217 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Gary J. Palmer’s office

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

Call office 202-225-4921 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

170 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0106

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 · 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

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.670 (party median +0.530; rank 176 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: AL-6 is R+19AL-6 has a partisan lean of R+19 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Weak
Backs only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 24 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.J.Res. 20, H.J.Res. 24, H.J.Res. 35, H.J.Res. 61, H.J.Res. 75 and 19 more.

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 Energy and Commerce
Majority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on EnvironmentChair
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Majority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs
- Subcommittee on Government Operations

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Palmer

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

Their score of +0.670 is 0.14 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress96
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

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

Swing score for Gary J. Palmer 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	38	Middle
H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov