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.

Laphonza R. Butler

Former Senator from California, 2023–2024 · Democrat

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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
0.19· expected 1.14

Below expectations

Rank 90 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 19
  2. Action in committee 2
  3. Action beyond committee 2
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 1

19 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 17 substantive, 2 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 Butler’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 Butler. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s Senate.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
95/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 19 missed of 421

Voted on 402 of 421 roll calls; missed 19. Lower than 60% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 19 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 306 votes that split the parties. Higher than 81% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
19/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 65% of senators.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.45

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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Butler’s bills that passed the Senate or further

All bills

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