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Jerry L. Carl

Former Representative for Alabama’s 1st District, 2021–2025 · Republican

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
0.48· expected 1.38

Below expectations

Rank 285 of 445 who served in the House that Congress · expected = average of 227 majority-party members

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

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

5 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 4 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

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

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

99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 8 missed of 1,235

Voted on 1,227 of 1,235 roll calls; missed 8. Higher than 84% of House members.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

House R median 95 · Rank 74 of 227

Sided with the Republican majority on 869 votes that split the parties. Higher than 53% of House members.

50%100%
13/ 100

Chamber median 16 · −3

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 73% of House members.

0%60%
+0.55

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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Bills, 118th Congress

Sponsored 7 (median 21) · cosponsored 235 (median 291). Medians are for all voting members of the House. From congress.gov.

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