Matt Cartwright

Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 8th District, 2013–2025 · 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 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.80· expected 0.60

Meets expectations

Rank 196 of 445 who served in the House that Congress · expected = average of 218 minority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 40
  2. Action in committee 16
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

40 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 40 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Cartwright’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 Cartwright. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s House.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
97/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 33 missed of 1,235

Voted on 1,202 of 1,235 roll calls; missed 33. Lower than 55% of House members.

35%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
94/ 100

House D median 98 · Rank 183 of 218

Sided with the Democratic majority on 854 votes that split the parties. Lower than 74% of House members.

50%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
20/ 100

Chamber median 16 · +4

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 76% of House members.

0%60%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.34

Democratic middle 80%: -0.52 to -0.24

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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Cartwright’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 Cartwright’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.