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U.S. Representative · New York 20th District
Paul Tonko
DemocratDistrict D+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score24#366 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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 14 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 14 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 9 more.
- 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
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: 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
- 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 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 251–300 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | NayProjected at the vote: 37 Middle (today: 32) | 32 |