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 dataset

Call office 202-225-2361 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2302 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3207

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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

Strong
Backs 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 dataset

On 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 Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
House Committee on Financial Services
Minority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Velázquez

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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 Congress7
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 151–200 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Nydia M. Velázquez on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
S. 233Restoring Confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	No recorded vote	39	Middle
S. 236A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the "Long-Term Leasing Act"), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes.