Mike Rounds

RepublicanState R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score63#19 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Mike Rounds’s office

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

Call office 202-224-5842 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

716 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

rounds.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 Democrats · 3 signals

Strong
Backs 25 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 25 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 315, S. 390, S. 567, S. 610 and 20 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 237 Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 315 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 390 BADGES for Native Communities Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 567 First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 610 Ensuring VetSuccess On Campus Act of 2025

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
Senate class: Class 2
Seniority: Junior senator
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 11.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Majority · 4th in seniority
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Majority · 13th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
- Subcommittee on Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Rounds

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Their score of +0.354 is 0.20 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress79
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 451–500 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Mike Rounds on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
H.J.Res. 130Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the House	YeaProjected at the vote: 60 Middle (today: 67)