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U.S. Representative · Oregon 5th District
Janelle S. Bynum
DemocratDistrict D+4119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score71#64 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Janelle S. Bynum’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1508 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3705
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 district, 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 · 5 signals
- StrongBacks 43 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 43 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 309, H.R. 539, H.R. 647, H.R. 842, H.R. 879 and 38 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 309 National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support, and Community Outreach Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 539 Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 647 Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 1.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 22nd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Bynum← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.288 is 0.11 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 551–600 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1413A bill to authorize additional funding for the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 73
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