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U.S. Senator · Missouri
Eric Schmitt
RepublicanState R+9119th Congress
Typical swing score59#20 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Eric Schmitt’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office404 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 Democrats · 1 signal
- WeakBacks 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- Medium3rd most conservative of 53 Senate RepublicansDW-NOMINATE +0.879 vs. the Senate Republican median of +0.558: 0.321 further from the Democrats. Unlikely to cross toward the Democrats; may still break with the party from the right.
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.879 (party median +0.558; rank 51 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 98 (avg 88); LCV 3 (avg 3).
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
- 3.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Joint Economic CommitteeVice ChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Senate Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 11th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Airland
- Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
- Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Schmitt← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.879 is 0.32 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress98Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
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. 7613ALERT ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 74
| Swing |
| S. 2975PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov |