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U.S. Representative · Missouri 1st District
Wesley Bell
DemocratDistrict D+29119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score31#302 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Wesley Bell’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1429 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2501
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 32 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 32 of the 2092 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 309, H.R. 516, H.R. 539, H.R. 879, H.R. 909 and 27 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 309 National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach 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. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund 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
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Armed ServicesMinority · 26th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsMinority · 25th in seniority
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMinority · 15th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services
- Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Bell← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.455 is 0.06 to the left 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 1701–1750 of 1964 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 2682Captain Paul W. 'Bud' Bucha VA Medical Center Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 22
| Entrenched |
| S. 3079Armed Forces Pay Act of 2025 |