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U.S. Representative · Georgia 2nd District
Sanford D. Bishop
DemocratDistrict D+4119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score60#102 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Sanford D. Bishop’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2407 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1002
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 · 6 signals
- StrongBacks 44 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 44 of the 2092 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.Con.Res. 12, H.R. 516, H.R. 539, H.R. 649, H.R. 703 and 39 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.Con.Res. 12 Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 516 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 539 Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 649 Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 703 Main Street Tax Certainty Act
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
- 33.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AppropriationsMinority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Bishop← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.289 is 0.10 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 1901–1950 of 1964 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 51Washington, D.C. Admission ActSummary on Congress.gov | Cosponsor | No recorded vote | 0
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 247 |