Vern Buchanan

RepublicanDistrict R+7119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score62#67 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Vern Buchanan’s office

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

Call office 202-225-5015 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2409 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0916

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 · 2 signals

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.
Weak
38th most moderate of 219 House RepublicansDW-NOMINATE +0.361 vs. the House Republican median of +0.530: 0.169 toward the Democrats (rank 38 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats).

Keeps them with Republicans · 0 signals

None of our measures place this member firmly with their party.

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 dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 19.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on Ways and Means
Majority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on HealthChair
- Subcommittee on Trade
Joint Committee on Taxation
Majority · 2nd in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Buchanan

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Their score of +0.361 is 0.17 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress79
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

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

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Vern Buchanan on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1098To reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	62	Middle
H.R. 1276To remove restrictions from a parcel of land in Paducah, Kentucky.Summary on Congress.gov