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U.S. Senator · North Carolina
Ted Budd
RepublicanState R+1119th Congress
Typical swing score51#37 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Ted Budd’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office354 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 · 3 signals
- StrongBacks 23 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 23 of the 2092 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 278, S. 315, S. 545, S. 567, S. 725 and 18 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 278 Kids Off Social Media Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 315 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 545 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 567 First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 725 Enhancing First Response Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
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- Joint Economic CommitteeMajority · 3rd in seniority
- Senate Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Airland
- Subcommittee on Personnel
- Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationMajority · 9th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Budd← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.634 is 0.08 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress100Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1451–1500 of 2040 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 162Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | No recorded vote | 48 | Middle |
| S. 180Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov |