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J.D. Vance

Former Senator from Ohio, 2023–2025 · 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 1, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.18· expected 0.85

Below expectations

Rank 92 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 49 minority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 35
  2. Action in committee 1
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

35 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 34 substantive, 1 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Vance’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 118th Congress

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

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
78/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 151 missed of 691

Voted on 540 of 691 roll calls; missed 151. Lower than 98% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
94/ 100

Senate R median 95 · Rank 32 of 49

Sided with the Republican majority on 418 votes that split the parties. Lower than 81% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
9/ 100

Chamber median 18 · −9

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 89% of senators.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.85

Republican middle 80%: 0.35 to 0.85

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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Vance’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Vance’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.