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U.S. Representative · Maryland 5th District
Steny H. Hoyer
DemocratDistrict D+17119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score31#304 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Steny H. Hoyer’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1705 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2005
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 12 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 12 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 471, H.R. 879, H.R. 909, H.R. 1065, H.R. 1229 and 7 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 471 Fix Our Forests Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1065 Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1229 United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 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
- 45.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AppropriationsMinority · 2nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General GovernmentRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Hoyer← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.381 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 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 551–600 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 6297PEACE ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 34
| Middle |
| H.R. 6715Child Predators Accountability Act |