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U.S. Senator · Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse
DemocratState D+8119th Congress
Typical swing score54#34 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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 60 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 60 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 93, S. 94, S. 138, S. 216, S. 339 and 55 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 93 Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 94 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 138 VA Home Loan Awareness Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 216 Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 339 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
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
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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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 501–550 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7266Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 55 | Middle |
| H.R. 7386First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov |