Jason Smith

RepublicanDistrict R+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score32#268 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Jason Smith’s office

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

Call office 202-225-4404 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1011 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2508

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 · 1 signal

Weak
Backs 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1993.

Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals

Strong
Safe Republican district: MO-8 is R+27MO-8 has a partisan lean of R+27 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.578 (party median +0.530; rank 130 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).

Bill-specific inputs

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: 13.4 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Ways and MeansChair
Majority · 1st in seniority
Joint Committee on TaxationVice Chairman
Majority · 1st in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R 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 Congress100
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

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

Showing 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Jason Smith on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1155Recovery of Stolen Checks ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	32	Middle
H.R. 1181Protecting Privacy in Purchases ActSummary on Congress.gov