Congress is out of session until Monday, November 9 for the midterm campaign. No new roll-call votes until then; the last were the House on Sep 16 and the Senate on Sep 30.

James C. Justice

U.S. Senator · West Virginia · Republican

Follow Sample brief Official website

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.73· expected 1.04

Meets expectations

Rank 49 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 32 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 14
  2. Action in committee 4
  3. Action beyond committee 3
  4. Passed chamber 3
  5. Became law 1

14 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 14 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (1)

1 commemorative

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 Justice’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 Justice.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
96/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 38 missed of 913

Voted on 875 of 913 roll calls; missed 38. Lower than 78% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 16 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 807 votes that split the parties. Higher than 83% of senators.

75%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
8/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 58% of senators.

0%30%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.56

Republican middle 80%: 0.38 to 0.78

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

LiberalConservative

Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 16 (median 61) · cosponsored 303 (median 307.5), 113 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

How we count words

Sponsored

Cosponsored