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 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 · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 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.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1038 TRACE Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1547 America the Beautiful Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1552 Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 2511 College Transparency Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 4429 Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

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-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 251–300 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Christopher Murphy on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
S.J.Res. 31A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act".Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	NayProjected at the vote: 50 Middle (today: 46)