Rand Paul

RepublicanState R+15119th Congress

Typical swing score42#47 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Rand Paul’s office

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

Call office 202-224-4343 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

295 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

paul.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 · 2 signals

Strong
Backs 7 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 7 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 861, S.J.Res. 37, S.J.Res. 77, S.J.Res. 81, S.J.Res. 88 and 2 more.
Weak
Heritage Action 76 vs. Senate Republican avg 88Heritage Action (119th Congress, higher = more conservative) scored this member 76; the Senate Republican average is 88.1 (n=53). That is 12 points toward the Democrats.

Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal

Medium
Safe Republican state: Kentucky is R+15Kentucky has a partisan lean of R+15 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.

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: 15.8 years

Committees

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

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsChairman
Majority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and CensusEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory AffairsEx Officio

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Paul

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.878 is 0.32 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress76
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 Rand Paul on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 22SAVE ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	42	Middle
S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov