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U.S. Senator · Montana
Steve Daines
RepublicanState R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score15#98 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Steve Daines’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office320 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
- MediumBacks 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 260, S. 315.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.588 (party median +0.558; rank 32 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 88); LCV 6 (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 datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
- Senate class
- Class 2
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 13.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesMajority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
- Subcommittee on National ParksChairman
- Subcommittee on Water and Power
- Senate Committee on FinanceMajority · 8th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Daines← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.588 is 0.03 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress96Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.Res. 943A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Move Over Law Day.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 40
| Middle |
| S.Res. 944A resolution designating September 2026 as "School Bus Safety Month".Summary on Congress.gov |