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U.S. Senator · Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse
DemocratState D+8119th Congress
Typical swing score35#72 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Sheldon Whitehouse’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office530 Hart 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 11 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 11 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 93, S. 216, S. 351, S. 645, S. 688 and 6 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.340 (party median -0.356; rank 19 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 94 (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, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Transportation and InfrastructureEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory OversightEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and SafetyEx Officio
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Whitehouse← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.340 is 0.02 to the right 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 1–50 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 144Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 51
| Middle |
| H.R. 3424SPACE Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov |