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U.S. Senator · Maryland
Chris Van Hollen
DemocratState D+15119th Congress
Typical swing score35#71 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Chris Van Hollen’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office730 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 5 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 1547, S. 1552, S. 2503, S. 2511, S. 4395.
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 100 (avg 96).
- MediumSafe Democratic state: Maryland is D+15Maryland has a partisan lean of D+15 (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
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 23.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on AppropriationsMinority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Hollen← 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 · 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. 452Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | 54
| Middle |
| S. 645North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act |