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
0.93· expected 1.41

Meets expectations

Rank 160 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 14
  2. Action in committee 6
  3. Action beyond committee 3
  4. Passed chamber 2
  5. Became law 0

14 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 12 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Collins’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 Collins.

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

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 14 missed of 674

Voted on 660 of 674 roll calls; missed 14. Lower than 54% of House members.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 25 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 469 votes that split the parties. Higher than 82% of House members.

45%100%
7/ 100

Chamber median 12 · −5

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

0%70%
+0.68

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

All bills

3 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Collins’s effectiveness score.

How we count words
  • H.R. 3679 Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement ActAdvances artificial intelligence capabilities or support for small businesses. AI-readScience, Technology, Communications · Passed a chamber Feb 24, 2026Substantive543 words Passed a chamber
  • H.R. 3898 PERMIT ActRedefines navigable waters under the Clean Water Act to exclude ephemeral features, groundwater, and other specified categories. AI-readEnvironmental Protection · Passed a chamber Dec 15, 2025Substantive8.1k words Passed a chamber
  • H.R. 29 Laken Riley ActRequires detention of non-citizens arrested for theft crimes and authorizes states to sue over immigration enforcement. AI-readImmigration · Out of committee Feb 10, 2025Substantive1.2k words Out of committee

Stage comes from each bill’s latest action on congress.gov; the full history is on each bill page.