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U.S. Representative · Tennessee 7th District
Matt Van Epps
RepublicanDistrict R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score33#290 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Matt Van Epps’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2446 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4207
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 +0.611 (party median +0.530; rank 152 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 100 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 8 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 1329, H.R. 6808, H.R. 7008, H.R. 8168, H.R. 8770 and 3 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
- December 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 0.9 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Homeland SecurityMajority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
- Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMajority · 21st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Environment
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Epps← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.611 is 0.08 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress100House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1608Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 52 70% of inputs · missing similar votes
| Middle |