Mitt Romney

Former Senator from Utah, 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 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured

0.18· expected 0.85

Below expectations

Rank 93 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 49 minority-party members

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

Introduced 27
Action in committee 2
Action beyond committee 1
Passed chamber 0
Became law 0

27 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 27 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

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

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

Attendance

How it’s measured

89/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 74 missed of 691

Voted on 617 of 691 roll calls; missed 74. Lower than 88% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured

79/ 100

Senate R median 95 · Rank 44 of 49

Sided with the Republican majority on 481 votes that split the parties. Lower than 94% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured

31/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +13

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 94% of senators.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured

+0.29

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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Romney’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

2 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 118th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Romney’s effectiveness score.

S. 308 Ending China's Developing Nation Status ActInternational Affairs · Out of committee Jun 13, 2023Substantive1.2k words Out of committee
S. 4085 Export Controls Enforcement Improvement Act of 2024Foreign Trade and International Finance · In committee Apr 10, 2024Substantive1k words In committee

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