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U.S. Representative · Missouri 8th District
Jason Smith
RepublicanDistrict R+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score23#340 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Jason Smith’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1011 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2508
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 · 2 signals
- MediumBacks 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1993, H.R. 4382.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1993 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4382 America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
- WeakBroke with Republicans on 2 of 353 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 2 of the 353 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (1%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 165 of 219 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2140 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025
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
- 13.4 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Ways and MeansChairMajority · 1st in seniority
- Joint Committee on TaxationVice ChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Smith← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.578 is 0.05 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 351–400 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7529Fresh Starts for Foster Youth ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 28
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 7655Support for Expectant and Parenting Foster Youth Act |