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U.S. Representative · Ohio 5th District
Robert E. Latta
RepublicanDistrict R+14119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score16#421 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Robert E. Latta’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2470 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3505
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 Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 5 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 250, H.R. 1787, H.R. 2004, H.R. 4382, H.R. 4635.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 250 To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1787 Roberto Clemente Commemorative Coin Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2004 Tyler’s Law
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4382 America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4635 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 890 East 152nd Street in Cleveland, Ohio, as the "Technical Sergeant Alma Gladys Minter Post Office Building".
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
- 18.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMajority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on EnergyChair
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Environment
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Latta← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.508 is 0.02 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress85House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 251–300 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1081Comprehensive NASA Reporting Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 19
| Entrenched |
| S. 2480 |