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U.S. Senator · Tennessee
Marsha Blackburn
RepublicanState R+14119th Congress
Typical swing score32#72 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Marsha Blackburn’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office357 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 10 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 10 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 71, S. 97, S. 99, S. 237, S. 257 and 5 more.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.632 (party median +0.558; rank 37 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 98 (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 dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 23.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Joint Economic CommitteeMajority · 5th in seniority
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media
- Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data PrivacyChairman
- Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness
- Senate Committee on Finance
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Blackburn← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.632 is 0.07 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress98Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.Res. 943A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Move Over Law Day.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 44
| Middle |
| S.Res. 944A resolution designating September 2026 as "School Bus Safety Month".Summary on Congress.gov |