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Jerry L. Carl

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
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.

35%100%

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%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
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%

Position

How it’s measured
+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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Carl’s bills that passed the House or further

All bills

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