Jeff Merkley

DemocratState D+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score43#51 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Jeff Merkley’s office

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

Call office 202-224-3753 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

531 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

merkley.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 12 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 12 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 93, S. 356, S. 688, S. 761, S. 1547 and 7 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.453 (party median -0.356; rank 39 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

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
Senate class: Class 2
Seniority: Junior senator
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 17.8 years

Committees

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

Senate Committee on the BudgetRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
Joint Committee on Printing
Minority · 2nd in seniority
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Minority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Merkley

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Their score of -0.453 is 0.10 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-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Jeff Merkley on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 5131Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	68 Topic-matched: Heritage Action Broke with party on 37% of 53 similar votes	Middle
H.R. 5362To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".