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 dataset

Call office 202-224-3154 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

354 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

budd.senate.gov

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

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

Strong
Backs 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 Committee
Majority · 3rd in seniority
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Majority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Airland
- Subcommittee on Personnel
- Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Majority · 9th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Budd

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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 Congress100
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 1701–1750 of 2040 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Ted Budd on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role		Swing score ·
S.Res. 481A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States Department of Agriculture should use its contingency funds and interchange authority to finance the supplemental nutrition assistance program.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	No recorded vote	44	Middle
S.Res. 592A resolution supporting the designation of 2026 as the "International Year of the Woman Farmer" to recognize and honor the critical role of women in agriculture.