Nydia M. Velázquez

DemocratDistrict D+25119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score58#93 of 431 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 · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 12 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 12 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979, H.R. 1008 and 7 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Strong
Safe Democratic district: NY-7 is D+25NY-7 has a partisan lean of D+25 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.546 (party median -0.393; rank 199 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 7 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).

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

← 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 Congress7
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Nydia M. Velázquez on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 495Subterranean Border Defense ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	58	Middle
H.R. 498Do No Harm in Medicaid ActSummary on Congress.gov