Terri A. Sewell

DemocratDistrict D+12119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score38#196 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Terri A. Sewell’s office

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

Call office 202-225-2665 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1035 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0107

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

Strong
Backs 13 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 13 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 33, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 8 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.402 (party median -0.393; rank 113 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 91 (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: 15.8 years

Committees

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

House Committee on House Administration
Minority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on ElectionsRanking Member
House Committee on Ways and Means
Minority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Social Security
- Subcommittee on Trade
- Subcommittee on OversightRanking Member

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Sewell

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

Their score of -0.402 is 0.01 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

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House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Swing score for Terri A. Sewell on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	38	Middle
H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov