# Mark Schoesler

Mark Schoesler is a Republican member of the Washington Senate for district 9.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Washington Senate, district 9
- Serving since: 2005-01-10
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/1f837050-2dca-48fa-b429-a562d1c858f8

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1f837050-2dca-48fa-b429-a562d1c858f8 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Schoesler’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Washington, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.56 (standard error 0.02), from 151 donors and 1,197 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 79% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,101 roll calls. Attendance 99.6% (Washington Senate 99.1%). Party unity 97.0% (95.5%). 68 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 14 bills: 14 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 56. 35.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington Senate 28.7%; rank 14 of 49).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 8676: Celebrating Cal Raleigh and the Seattle Mariners' historic season. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-02) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SR8676/
- SB 5927: Capping the rate of increase for future workers' compensation cost-of-living adjustments. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5927/
- SB 5919: Encouraging fire districts and insurance providers to develop voluntary incentives to promote best practices. (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5919/
- SB 5856: Exempting emissions associated with lubricants from coverage under the cap and invest program. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5856/
- SB 5857: Concerning architectural and engineering fee funding assistance limits for school district construction and modernization projects. (in committee, 2026-01-22) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5857/
- SB 5854: Modifying procedures for releasing sexually violent predators to less restrictive alternative placements. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5854/
- SR 8634: Recognizing the 90th Annual Junior Livestock Show. (passed one chamber, 2025-03-18) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SR8634/
- SR 8629: Honoring Ichiro Suzuki. (passed one chamber, 2025-03-10) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SR8629/
- SB 5431: Modifying tax and revenue laws in a manner that is not estimated to affect state or local tax collections. (became law, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5431/
- SB 5399: Concerning liquor licenses. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5399/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $12.4K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://markschoesler.src.wastateleg.org/
- Campaign site: https://markschoesler.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senatormarkschoesler/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-schoesler-197560a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1f837050-2dca-48fa-b429-a562d1c858f8