Steny H. Hoyer

DemocratDistrict D+17119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score31#307 of 433 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Steny H. Hoyer’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-4131 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1705 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2005

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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 · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 3 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 471, H.R. 909, H.R. 1422.

Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.381 (party median -0.393; rank 100 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 88 (avg 96).
Medium
Safe Democratic district: MD-5 is D+17MD-5 has a partisan lean of D+17 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

Bill-specific inputs

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On 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 Appropriations
Minority · 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 Voteview

D 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

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House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Steny H. Hoyer on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 2876University of Utah Research Park ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	44 Topic-matched: LCV Broke with party on 6% of 26 similar votes	Middle
H.R. 3187To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a parcel of property of the Forest Service to Perry County, Arkansas, and for other purposes.