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U.S. Representative · Connecticut 4th District
James A. Himes
DemocratDistrict D+13119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score58#118 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact James A. Himes’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2137 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0704
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 · 3 signals
- StrongBacks 32 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 32 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 309, H.R. 452, H.R. 539, H.R. 842, H.R. 879 and 27 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 309 National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 539 Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization 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
- 17.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 8th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Himes← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.241 is 0.15 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 601–650 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 649Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 61
| Middle |
| H.R. 5713Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens Act |