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U.S. Representative · Tennessee 9th District
Steve Cohen
DemocratDistrict D+23119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score43#194 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Steve Cohen’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2268 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4209
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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 43 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 43 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 36, H.R. 452, H.R. 516, H.R. 842 and 38 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 38 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 36 MEGOBARI Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 516 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
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
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on the JudiciaryMinority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
- Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance
- Subcommittee on The Constitution and Limited Government
- House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceMinority · 12th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cyber
- Subcommittee on Open Source Intelligence
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Cohen← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.388 is 0.01 to the right 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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 551–600 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.Res. 137Resolution designating the House Press Gallery (Rooms H-315, H-316, H-317, H-318, and H-319 in the United States Capitol) as the 'Frederick Douglass Press Gallery’Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 48
| Middle |