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U.S. Senator · Louisiana
John Kennedy
RepublicanState R+11119th Congress
Typical swing score45#43 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact John Kennedy’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office437 Russell 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 Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 5 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 315, S. 567, S. 594, S. 4189.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.558 (party median +0.558; rank 27 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 81 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).
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, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 9.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on AppropriationsMajority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
- Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentChairman
- Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Kennedy← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.558 is 0.00 level with the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress81Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 5639Portal for Appraisal Licensing Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 54
| Middle |
| S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov |