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U.S. Representative · Tennessee 7th District
Matt Van Epps
RepublicanDistrict R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score25#317 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 · 2 signals
- MediumBacks 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1340, H.R. 4382.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1340 More Homes on the Market Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 4382 America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act
- WeakBroke with Republicans on 1 of 187 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 1 of the 187 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (1%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 172 of 219 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 2503 ROTOR Act
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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 351–400 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 5778Improving SBA Engagement on Employee Ownership ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 28
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 6551 |