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U.S. Senator · Massachusetts
Edward J. Markey
DemocratState D+14119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score21#94 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Edward J. Markey’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office255 Dirksen 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 · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 30 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 30 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 281, S. 410, S. 494, S. 761, S. 864 and 25 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 281 TICKET Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 410 Love Lives On Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 494 National Plan for Epilepsy Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 761 Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 864 HELP Copays Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn 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
- 51.7 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationMinority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media
- Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy
- Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Markey← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.518 is 0.16 to the left 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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 401–450 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1717Communications Security ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 28
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 1721Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act |