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Mitch McConnell

U.S. Senator · Kentucky · Republican · Chair, Joint Committee of Congress on the Library

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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
0.49· expected 1.48

Below expectations

Rank 75 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 21 majority-party committee chairs

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

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

7 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 7 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (1)

1 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 McConnell’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is McConnell.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
85/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 137 missed of 915

Voted on 778 of 915 roll calls; missed 137. Lower than 100% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
97/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 47 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 724 votes that split the parties. Lower than 70% of senators.

75%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
11/ 100

Chamber median 9 · +2

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 78% of senators.

0%30%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.40

Republican middle 80%: 0.38 to 0.78

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 14 (median 61) · cosponsored 68 (median 307.5), 16 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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