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.

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
0.45· expected 1.41

Below expectations

Rank 277 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 16
  2. Action in committee 7
  3. Action beyond committee 2
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

16 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 15 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Messmer’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 Messmer.

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

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 13 missed of 674

Voted on 661 of 674 roll calls; missed 13. Lower than 51% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 46 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 467 votes that split the parties. Higher than 72% of House members.

45%100%
13/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 62% of House members.

0%70%
+0.54

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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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 17 (median 26) · cosponsored 230 (median 294), 68 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the House. From congress.gov.

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Sponsored

Cosponsored