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Mike Braun

Former Senator from Indiana, 2019–2025 · Republican

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
2.48· expected 0.85

Above expectations

Rank 6 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 49 minority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 120
  2. Action in committee 8
  3. Action beyond committee 8
  4. Passed chamber 7
  5. Became law 4

120 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 117 substantive, 2 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (4)

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

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

88/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 85 missed of 691

Voted on 606 of 691 roll calls; missed 85. Lower than 91% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
96/ 100

Senate R median 95 · Rank 23 of 49

Sided with the Republican majority on 471 votes that split the parties. Lower than 71% of senators.

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9/ 100

Chamber median 18 · −9

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 90% of senators.

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+0.80

Republican middle 80%: 0.35 to 0.85

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, 118th Congress

Sponsored 150 (median 52) · cosponsored 701 (median 327). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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