Kyrsten Sinema

Former Senator from Arizona, 2019–2025 · Independent

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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 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.97· expected 1.14

Meets expectations

Rank 35 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 34
  2. Action in committee 12
  3. Action beyond committee 11
  4. Passed chamber 2
  5. Became law 1

34 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 32 substantive, 2 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (1)

1 national policy

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 Sinema’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 Sinema. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s Senate.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
89/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 75 missed of 691

Voted on 616 of 691 roll calls; missed 75. Lower than 89% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
91/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 52 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 474 votes that split the parties. Lower than 83% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
26/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +8

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 91% of senators.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.19

Democratic middle 80%: -0.48 to -0.21

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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Sinema’s bills that became law

All bills

1 bill sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Sinema’s effectiveness score.

1 national policy

How we count words

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.