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U.S. Senator · Louisiana
Bill Cassidy
RepublicanState R+11119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score43#52 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Bill Cassidy’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office455 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 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. 567, S. 836, S. 1467.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.463 (party median +0.558; rank 20 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (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 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
- 17.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Education and the American FamilyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace SafetyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement SecurityEx Officio
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Cassidy← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.463 is 0.10 to the left 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 itShowing 1–50 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2709Save Our Sequoias ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | 61
| Middle |
| H.J.Res. 72Relating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025. |