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Votes with the Democratic majority 97% of the time; Hollen’s 3 recent breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Democrats backed. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - International Association of Fire Fighters scores it 200, Americans for Prosperity 0 (9 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 4 bills on record; most recently 977 “FIRE STATION Act” (Mar 12, 2025). bill records
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What we don’t cover yet
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The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
97%
Votes with the Democratic majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Hollen’s vote matched the Democratic position 97% of the time. That makes the 3 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Hollen actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Sep 17, 2026
139 votes · 78 no · 61 yes
Where Hollen broke from the party - the high-signal votes
VOTED NO
Protect College Sports Act of 2026
Democrats voted yes, 27–17; Hollen was one of the 17 against · 4668 · Sep 17, 2026
roll call
VOTED NO
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
Democrats voted yes, 27–16; Hollen was one of the 16 against · 1071 · Dec 17, 2025
9 ratings from advocacy groups, across 12 issue areas. Scores are shown on a shared 0–100 scale so groups can be read side by side, with each group’s own published score kept next to it. Every score is the group’s opinion, never our verdict, and every row links to the scorecard.
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
DW-NOMINATE · votesLiberal
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More liberal than 85% of the U.S. Senate
Details
Score−0.40 on a −1.0 to +1.0 scale
BasisFrom roll-call votes
Party median0.04 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.36)
Compared with104 members of U.S. Senate · 119th Congress
Covers108th–119th Congress
● This person Democrats (45) Republicans (57)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
108th Congress −0.41 → 119th Congress −0.48 · higher = more conservative
Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. DW-NOMINATE ↗
DIME CFscore · donorsLiberal
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More liberal than 71% of 2024 U.S. Senate candidates in Maryland
Details
Score−0.82 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom campaign donors
Party median0.16 more liberal than the Democratic median in this group (−0.66)
Compared with14 members of 2024 U.S. Senate candidates in Maryland
Covers2002–2024
● This person Democrats (6) Republicans (7)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime DIME CFscore ↗
About these scores
These are third-party academic estimates of one left–right dimension, computed by researchers from roll-call votes or campaign donors. They are not Poliscope’s judgment. Each source uses its own scale, so compare people within a source rather than across sources.
