James E. Risch

RepublicanState R+18119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score29#73 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact James E. Risch’s office

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

Call office 202-224-2752 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

483 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

risch.senate.gov

Model

v3defaultv2

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 · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 5 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 546, S. 567, S. 1467, S. 3258.

Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals

Medium
Votes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.551 (party median +0.558; rank 26 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 88); LCV 3 (avg 3).
Medium
Safe Republican state: Idaho is R+18Idaho has a partisan lean of R+18 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Weak

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: 17.8 years

Committees

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

Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsChairman
Majority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security CooperationEx Officio
- Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity PolicyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's IssuesEx Officio

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Risch

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Their score of +0.551 is 0.01 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress96
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

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

Swing score for James E. Risch on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 22SAVE ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	29	Entrenched
S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov