From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 9, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.14· expected 1.04

Below expectations

Rank 98 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 32 majority-party members without a committee lead

How far Armstrong’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 2
  2. Action in committee 1
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

2 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 2 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Armstrong’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Armstrong.

Armstrong in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

100/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 0 missed of 191

Voted on 191 of 191 roll calls; missed 0. Higher than 99% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 1 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 169 votes that split the parties. Higher than 96% of senators.

75%100%
6/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −3

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 85% of senators.

0%30%
+0.65

Republican middle 80%: 0.38 to 0.78

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Armstrong’s bills that made it out of committee or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Armstrong’s effectiveness score.

How we count words

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.