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Garret Graves

Former Representative for Louisiana’s 6th District, 2015–2025 · Republican

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Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
3.75· expected 1.38

Above expectations

Rank 15 of 445 who served in the House that Congress · expected = average of 227 majority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 22
  2. Action in committee 17
  3. Action beyond committee 9
  4. Passed chamber 2
  5. Became law 2

22 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 19 substantive, 1 commemorative. Compare the House

Became law (2)

2 national policy

Scope tags come from an AI reading of each bill where available, otherwise from its title and policy area. They don’t change the score. How scope is tagged

How Graves’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 Graves. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s House.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 23 missed of 1,235

Voted on 1,212 of 1,235 roll calls; missed 23. Higher than 58% of House members.

35%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
92/ 100

House R median 95 · Rank 162 of 227

Sided with the Republican majority on 860 votes that split the parties. Lower than 80% of House members.

50%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
21/ 100

Chamber median 16 · +5

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 77% of House members.

0%60%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.42

Republican middle 80%: 0.31 to 0.71

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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Graves’s bills that passed the House or further

All bills

2 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Graves’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.