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U.S. Representative · Oregon 1st District
Suzanne Bonamici
DemocratDistrict D+20119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score22#388 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Suzanne Bonamici’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2231 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3701
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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 9 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 9 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329 and 4 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.401 (party median -0.393; rank 112 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).
- MediumSafe Democratic district: OR-1 is D+20OR-1 has a partisan lean of D+20 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
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
- 14.7 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMinority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
- Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary EducationRanking Member
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Environment
- Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Bonamici← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.401 is 0.01 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 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 787VetPAC Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 45
| Middle |
| S. 1441SAVES Act of 2025 |