Congress is out of session until Monday, November 9 for the midterm campaign. No new roll-call votes until then; the last were the House on Sep 16 and the Senate on Sep 30.

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.60· expected 0.51

Meets expectations

Rank 226 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 192 minority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 42
  2. Action in committee 4
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

42 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 42 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Pettersen’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 119th Congress

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

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

85/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 103 missed of 674

Voted on 571 of 674 roll calls; missed 103. Lower than 98% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

House D median 98 · Rank 122 of 214

Sided with the Democratic majority on 423 votes that split the parties. Lower than 56% of House members.

45%100%
10/ 100

Chamber median 12 · −2

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 64% of House members.

0%70%
−0.38

Democratic middle 80%: -0.52 to -0.23

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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Pettersen’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 Pettersen’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.