Christopher Murphy

DemocratState D+8119th Congress

Typical swing score29#78 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Christopher Murphy’s office

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

Call office 202-224-4041 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

136 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

murphy.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 · 2 signals

Strong
Backs 21 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 21 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 410, S. 1038, S. 1547, S. 1552, S. 1748 and 16 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 410 Love Lives On Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1038 TRACE Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1547 America the Beautiful Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1552 Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1748 Kids Online Safety Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: AUKUS Improvement Act of 2025

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
Senate class: Class 1
Seniority: Junior senator
Next election: November 5, 2030
Years in office: 19.8 years

Committees

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

Senate Committee on Appropriations
Minority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Subcommittee on Department of Homeland SecurityRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Murphy

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Their score of -0.290 is 0.07 to the right 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 851–900 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Christopher Murphy on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
H.J.Res. 59Disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions".Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the House	No recorded vote	29	Entrenched
H.J.Res. 63Redesignating the Robert E. Lee Memorial as the "Arlington House National Historic Site".