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U.S. Representative · Arkansas 1st District
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
RepublicanDistrict R+23119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score32#293 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Eric A. "Rick" Crawford’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2422 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0401
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 · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.462 (party median +0.530; rank 80 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 79 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: AR-1 is R+23AR-1 has a partisan lean of R+23 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 12 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 21, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 7 more.
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 Transportation and InfrastructureVice ChairMajority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
- Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- House Committee on AgricultureMajority · 4th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Crawford← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.462 is 0.07 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress79House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1681Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 53
| Middle |
| H.R. 2474Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act |