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U.S. Representative · Florida 12th District
Gus M. Bilirakis
RepublicanDistrict R+17119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score37#218 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Gus M. Bilirakis’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2306 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0912
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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 8 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 8 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 900, H.R. 1266, H.R. 1993, H.R. 2004, H.R. 5200 and 3 more.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.423 (party median +0.530; rank 58 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 91 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: FL-12 is R+17FL-12 has a partisan lean of R+17 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Bill-specific inputs
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 CommerceMajority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and TradeChair
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyMajority · 10th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Bilirakis← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.423 is 0.11 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress91House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
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. 3176To amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to reauthorize the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 45
| Middle |
| H.R. 4058Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act |