Richard E. Neal

DemocratDistrict D+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score28#296 of 433 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Richard E. Neal’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-5601 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

372 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2101

Model

v3defaultv2

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

Medium
Backs 2 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 33, H.R. 452.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.417 (party median -0.393; rank 125 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).

Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.

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: 37.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Ways and MeansRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
Joint Committee on Taxation
Minority · 4th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Neal

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of -0.417 is 0.02 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress0
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

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

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

Swing score for Richard E. Neal on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1717Communications Security ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	37 Broke with party on 3% of 11 similar votes	Middle
H.R. 1737To direct the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of the value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria.