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Rand Paul

U.S. Senator · Kentucky · Republican · Chair, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 4, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.56· expected 1.48

Below expectations

Rank 69 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 21 majority-party committee chairs

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

  1. Introduced 52
  2. Action in committee 9
  3. Action beyond committee 7
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

52 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 52 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Paul’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 Paul.

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

96/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 41 missed of 915

Voted on 874 of 915 roll calls; missed 41. Lower than 81% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
88/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 51 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 798 votes that split the parties. Lower than 94% of senators.

75%100%
16/ 100

Chamber median 9 · +7

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 93% of senators.

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+0.88

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 58 (median 61) · cosponsored 78 (median 307.5), 39 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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