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U.S. Representative · Florida 14th District
Kathy Castor
DemocratDistrict D+5119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score55#135 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Kathy Castor’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2188 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0914
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 Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 15 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 15 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 906, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 10 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 906 Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 979 AM Radio for Every Vehicle 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
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMinority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on EnergyRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyMinority · 3rd in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Castor← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.434 is 0.04 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress14House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1442To ban the sale of products with a high concentration of sodium nitrite to individuals, and for other purposes.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | YeaProjected at the vote: 48 Middle (today: 62) | 62 |