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
1.06· expected 0.51

Above expectations

Rank 145 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 192 minority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 57
  2. Action in committee 12
  3. Action beyond committee 3
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

57 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 57 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Pappas’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 Pappas.

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

100/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 0 missed of 674

Voted on 674 of 674 roll calls; missed 0. Higher than 97% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
90/ 100

House D median 98 · Rank 196 of 214

Sided with the Democratic majority on 468 votes that split the parties. Lower than 95% of House members.

45%100%
19/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +7

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 92% of House members.

0%70%
−0.23

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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Pappas’s bills that passed the House or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Pappas’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.