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 1, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
11.36· expected 1.41

Above expectations

Rank 1 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 41
  2. Action in committee 24
  3. Action beyond committee 19
  4. Passed chamber 14
  5. Became law 7

41 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 3 significant (got a roll call vote), 38 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

Became law (7)

5 Alaska-specific · 2 overturned federal rules

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

Became law inside another bill (2)

Begich’s own bill stalled, but the Congressional Research Service lists an identical bill, or one with similar text, that became law. Shown for context; not counted in the score, which follows the Center for Effective Lawmaking. How this works

How Begich’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 Begich.

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

99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 6 missed of 674

Voted on 668 of 674 roll calls; missed 6. Higher than 75% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 107 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 469 votes that split the parties. Higher than 50% of House members.

45%100%
10/ 100

Chamber median 12 · −2

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 71% of House members.

0%70%
+0.59

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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Begich’s bills that passed the House or further

All bills

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