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U.S. Representative · California 43rd District
Maxine Waters
DemocratDistrict D+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score60#97 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Maxine Waters’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2221 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0543
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 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 842, H.R. 879, H.R. 909, H.R. 1065 and 10 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. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Protect Our Letter Carriers 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
- 35.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Waters← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.656 is 0.26 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 601–650 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 292Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 62
| Middle |
| S. 327 |