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U.S. Representative · Virginia 9th District
H. Morgan Griffith
RepublicanDistrict R+22119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score43#195 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact H. Morgan Griffith’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2110 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4609
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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 975, H.R. 4382, H.R. 5058.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 975 Credit Union Board Modernization Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4382 America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 5058 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building".
- WeakBroke with Republicans on 8 of 351 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 8 of the 351 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (2%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 78 of 219 by break rate.
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
- 15.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMajority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on HealthChair
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Environment
- House Committee on House AdministrationMajority · 3rd in seniority
- House Committee on RulesMajority · 8th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
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Griffith← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.510 is 0.02 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress91House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 701–750 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 495Subterranean Border Defense ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | YeaProjected at the vote: 42 Middle (today: 44) | 44 |