Richard Blumenthal

DemocratState D+8119th Congress

Typical swing score27#76 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Richard Blumenthal’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-224-2823 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

503 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

blumenthal.senate.gov

Model

v3defaultv2

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 Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 24 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 24 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 146, S. 645, S. 736, S. 761, S. 825 and 19 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.434 (party median -0.356; rank 34 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 97 (avg 96).

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 dataset

Current term: January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
Senate class: Class 3
Seniority: Senior senator
Next election: November 7, 2028
Years in office: 15.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

Senate Committee on Veterans' AffairsRanking Member
Minority · 1st in seniority
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Minority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Seapower
- Subcommittee on Airland
- Subcommittee on Personnel
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Minority · 3rd in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Blumenthal

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of -0.434 is 0.08 to the left of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average

119th Congress0
Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Swing score for Richard Blumenthal on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 22SAVE ActSummary on Congress.gov	No position yet	27	Entrenched
S. 5Laken Riley ActSummary on Congress.gov