Peter Welch

DemocratState D+17119th Congress

Typical swing score17#94 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Peter Welch’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-224-4242 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

115 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

welch.senate.gov

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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

Strong
Backs 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 Forestry
Minority · 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 Finance
Minority · 13th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Welch

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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

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Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 1251–1300 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Peter Welch on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
H.R. 8467ZOMBIE ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	No recorded vote	17	Entrenched
H.R. 8476No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov