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John R. Moolenaar

U.S. Representative · MI-2 · Republican · Chair, Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.86· expected 1.91

Below expectations

Rank 173 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 24 majority-party committee chairs

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

  1. Introduced 39
  2. Action in committee 8
  3. Action beyond committee 4
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

39 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 39 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Moolenaar’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Moolenaar.

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

100/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 2 missed of 674

Voted on 672 of 674 roll calls; missed 2. Higher than 88% of House members.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 129 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 470 votes that split the parties. Lower than 59% of House members.

45%100%
15/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +3

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

0%70%
+0.45

Republican middle 80%: 0.32 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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Moolenaar’s bills that made it out of committee or further

All bills

4 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Moolenaar’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.