From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 10, 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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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 2 (median 61) · cosponsored 38 (median 307.5), 7 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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Cosponsored