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U.S. Senator · Vermont
Peter Welch
DemocratState D+17119th Congress
Typical swing score19#98 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Peter Welch’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office115 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
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 17 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 17 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 222, S. 645, S. 736, S. 825, S. 1318 and 12 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.399 (party median -0.356; rank 30 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 97 (avg 96).
- MediumSafe Democratic state: Vermont is D+17Vermont 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- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryMinority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology
- Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and CreditRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety
- Senate Committee on FinanceMinority · 13th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Welch← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.399 is 0.04 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-v2, directional · 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. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | 19 | Entrenched |
| S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov |