Gary C. Peters

U.S. Senator · Michigan · Democrat · Ranking Member, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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
2.91· expected 0.95

Above expectations

Rank 5 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 18 minority-party ranking members

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

  1. Introduced 76
  2. Action in committee 23
  3. Action beyond committee 21
  4. Passed chamber 16
  5. Became law 1

76 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 76 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (1)

1 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 Peters’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 Peters.

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

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 19 missed of 915

Voted on 896 of 915 roll calls; missed 19. Higher than 50% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
95/ 100

Senate D median 96 · Rank 31 of 47

Sided with the Democratic majority on 823 votes that split the parties. Lower than 81% of senators.

75%100%
11/ 100

Chamber median 9 · +2

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

0%30%
−0.25

Democratic middle 80%: -0.51 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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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 85 (median 61) · cosponsored 288 (median 307.5), 131 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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