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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
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 66 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 66 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 94, S. 138, S. 161, S. 222, S. 323 and 61 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 94 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 138 VA Home Loan Awareness Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 161 She DRIVES Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 222 Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 323 PLAN for Broadband Act
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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
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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-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 251–300 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 9499Protecting Taxpayers from Ghost Preparers ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 26
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 9500Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act |