Dean Phillips

Former Representative for Minnesota’s 3rd District, 2019–2025 · Democrat

Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured

0.37· expected 0.60

Meets expectations

Rank 322 of 445 who served in the House that Congress · expected = average of 218 minority-party members

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

Introduced 20
Action in committee 8
Action beyond committee 1
Passed chamber 0
Became law 0

20 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 20 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Phillips’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 118th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Phillips. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s House.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured

72/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 343 missed of 1,235

Voted on 892 of 1,235 roll calls; missed 343. Lower than 99% of House members.

35%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured

94/ 100

House D median 98 · Rank 178 of 218

Sided with the Democratic majority on 622 votes that split the parties. Lower than 70% of House members.

50%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured

19/ 100

Chamber median 16 · +3

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 70% of House members.

0%60%

Position

How it’s measured

−0.28

Democratic middle 80%: -0.52 to -0.24

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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Phillips’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

8 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Phillips’s effectiveness score.

H.R. 1651 Small Business 7(a) Loan Agent Transparency ActCommerce · Out of committee Jun 5, 2023Substantive394 words Out of committee
H.R. 6030 Expanding Health Care Options for First Responders ActHealth · In committee Dec 17, 2024Substantive1.9k words In committee
H.R. 9881 American Dream Accounts Act of 2024Taxation · In committee Dec 17, 2024Substantive1.9k words In committee
H.R. 3651 Love Lives On Act of 2023Armed Forces and National Security · In committee Apr 16, 2024Substantive952 words In committee
H.R. 4801 HONEST Enterprise ActCommerce · In committee Jul 21, 2023Substantive1.4k words In committee
H.R. 4263 ADINA ActAgriculture and Food · In committee Jun 23, 2023Substantive194 words In committee
H.R. 3384 Better Foreign Policy Through Better Pet Policy ActGovernment Operations and Politics · In committee May 17, 2023Substantive354 words In committee
H.R. 3065 School Access to Naloxone Act of 2023Health · In committee May 5, 2023Substantive591 words In committee

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