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U.S. Representative · New York 7th District
Nydia M. Velázquez
DemocratDistrict D+25119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score29#276 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Nydia M. Velázquez’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2302 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3207
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 20 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 20 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 323, H.R. 835, H.R. 842, H.R. 909 and 15 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. 835 9/11 Memorial and Museum Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
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
- 33.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Small BusinessRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Velázquez← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.546 is 0.15 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress7House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 701–750 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 398Geothermal Cost-Recovery Authority Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 30
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 1355 |