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Votes with the Democratic majority 96% of the time; Rochester’s 4 recent breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Democrats backed. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - Center for Freethought Equality scores it 100, American Bakers Association 0 (10 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 2 bills on record; most recently 8223 “Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women’s Health Act” (Apr 9, 2026). bill records
What we don’t cover yet 2 gaps
What we don’t cover yet
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The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
96%
Votes with the Democratic majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Rochester’s vote matched the Democratic position 96% of the time. That makes the 4 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Rochester actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Sep 17, 2026
140 votes · 80 no · 60 yes
Where Rochester broke from the party - the high-signal votes
VOTED NO
Protect College Sports Act of 2026
Democrats voted yes, 27–17; Rochester was one of the 17 against · 4668 · Sep 17, 2026
10 ratings from advocacy groups, across 13 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.
Health Care · 3
American Bakers Association · issue advocacy · 2025
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
DW-NOMINATE · votesLiberal
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More liberal than 83% 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
Covers115th–119th Congress
● This person Democrats (45) Republicans (57)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
115th Congress −0.32 → 119th Congress −0.47 · 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
LeftRight
More liberal than 83% of 2024 U.S. House candidates in Delaware
Details
Score−0.85 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom campaign donors
Compared with6 members of 2024 U.S. House candidates in Delaware
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.
