From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 10, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
1.74· expected 1.41

Meets expectations

Rank 72 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 17
  2. Action in committee 6
  3. Action beyond committee 4
  4. Passed chamber 3
  5. Became law 1

17 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 16 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

Became law (1)

1 commemorative

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 (1)

Hudson’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 Hudson’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 Hudson.

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

99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 8 missed of 674

Voted on 666 of 674 roll calls; missed 8. Higher than 69% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 91 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 468 votes that split the parties. Higher than 55% of House members.

45%100%
13/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 63% of House members.

0%70%
+0.52

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

All bills

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