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U.S. Representative · New York 20th District
Paul Tonko
DemocratDistrict D+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score27#299 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Paul Tonko’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2269 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3220
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 39 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 39 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 323, H.R. 452, H.R. 516, H.R. 539 and 34 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 38 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 323 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Prospect Street in Avon, New York, as the "Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz Memorial Post Office Building".
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 516 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
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
- 17.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMinority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on EnvironmentRanking Member
- House Committee on the BudgetMinority · 14th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Tonko← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.416 is 0.02 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 101–150 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 6963To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 45
| Middle |