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U.S. Senator · Washington
Patty Murray
DemocratState D+10119th Congress
Typical swing score29#81 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Patty Murray’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
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 state, 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
- StrongBacks 6 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 6 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 356, S. 645, S. 761, S. 1318, S. 1547 and 1 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.357 (party median -0.356; rank 25 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 100 (avg 96).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 33.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on AppropriationsRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Subcommittee on Legislative BranchEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Murray← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.357 is 0.00 to the left of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1441SAVES Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 43
| Middle |
| S. 1591ARCA Act of 2025 |