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 4, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
3.17· expected 1.41

Above expectations

Rank 13 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 120
  2. Action in committee 25
  3. Action beyond committee 14
  4. Passed chamber 5
  5. Became law 0

120 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 114 substantive, 4 commemorative. Compare the House

How Lawler’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 Lawler.

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

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 12 missed of 674

Voted on 662 of 674 roll calls; missed 12. Higher than 53% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
89/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 217 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 463 votes that split the parties. Lower than 95% of House members.

45%100%
22/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +10

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 97% of House members.

0%70%
+0.19

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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Lawler’s bills that made it out of committee or further

All bills

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