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U.S. Senator · West Virginia
James C. Justice
RepublicanState R+21119th Congress
Typical swing score20#97 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact James C. Justice’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office509 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 Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 315, S. 4189.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.562 (party median +0.558; rank 28 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 88); LCV 3 (avg 3).
- MediumSafe Republican state: West Virginia is R+21West Virginia has a partisan lean of R+21 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Bill-specific inputs
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 14, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 1.7 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryMajority · 8th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology
- Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Energy
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Justice← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.562 is 0.00 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress94Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 375Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 32
| Middle |
| H.R. 2709Save Our Sequoias Act |