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U.S. Representative · Washington 5th District
Michael Baumgartner
RepublicanDistrict R+5119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score43#198 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Michael Baumgartner’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office124 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4705
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 Democrats · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.600 (party median +0.530; rank 144 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 83 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 31 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.J.Res. 87, H.J.Res. 88, H.J.Res. 89, H.R. 27, H.R. 38 and 26 more.
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 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 Education and WorkforceMajority · 18th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsMajority · 24th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa
- Subcommittee on South and Central Asia
- House Committee on the JudiciaryMajority · 25th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Baumgartner← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.600 is 0.07 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress83House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4986Parents Opt-in Protection ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 49
| Middle |
| H.R. 10724To amend title 11, United States Code, to clarify the rules for the exceptions to the discharge of the debt of an individual debtor, and for other purposes.Summary on Congress.gov |