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U.S. Representative · Connecticut 2nd District
Joe Courtney
DemocratDistrict D+4119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score42#212 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Joe Courtney’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2449 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0702
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 · 4 signals
- StrongBacks 31 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 31 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 12, H.Con.Res. 38, H.R. 452, H.R. 539, H.R. 649 and 26 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 12 Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
- 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. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 539 Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
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 Armed ServicesMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection ForcesRanking Member
- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Courtney← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.336 is 0.06 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 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 251–300 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4499To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 49
| Middle |