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U.S. Senator · Washington
Maria Cantwell
DemocratState D+10119th Congress
Typical swing score41#52 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Maria Cantwell’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office511 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 Republicans · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 9 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 9 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 356, S. 645, S. 761, S. 921, S. 1441 and 4 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 356 Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 645 North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 761 Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 921 Tyler’s Law
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1441 SAVES Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 33.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and InnovationEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Telecommunications and MediaEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data PrivacyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
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Cantwell← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.308 is 0.05 to the right 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 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 906Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 50
| Middle |
| H.R. 1223ANCHOR Act |