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U.S. Senator · Connecticut
Christopher Murphy
DemocratState D+8119th Congress
Typical swing score36#70 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Christopher Murphy’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office136 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
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
- StrongBacks 5 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 1038, S. 1547, S. 1552, S. 2511, S. 4429.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.290 (party median -0.356; rank 13 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 97 (avg 96).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
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 AppropriationsMinority · 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 VoteviewD median
R median
Murphy← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
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- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 201–250 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1020A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 48
| Middle |
| S. 5249MORE American Fuel Act of 2026 |