Alex Padilla

DemocratState D+12119th Congress

Typical swing score29#74 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Alex Padilla’s office

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

Call office 202-224-3553 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

padilla.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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 19 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 19 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 32, S. 93, S. 356, S. 494, S. 645 and 14 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 32 LACA
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 93 Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 356 Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 494 National Plan for Epilepsy Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 645 North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act

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: 5.7 years

Committees

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

Senate Committee on Rules and AdministrationRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library
Minority · 1st in seniority
Joint Committee on Printing
Minority · 1st in seniority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Minority · 8th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Padilla

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Their score of -0.442 is 0.09 to the left of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average

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Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)

Swing score by bill

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

Showing 201–250 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Alex Padilla on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
H.R. 1578Veterans Claims Education Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	No recorded vote	29	Entrenched
H.R. 1608Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov