Robert Menendez

Former Senator from New Jersey, 2006–2024 · Democrat

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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
1.02· expected 1.14

Meets expectations

Rank 31 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 51
  2. Action in committee 15
  3. Action beyond committee 10
  4. Passed chamber 2
  5. Became law 0

51 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 51 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

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

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
86/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 81 missed of 582

Voted on 501 of 582 roll calls; missed 81. Lower than 95% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 46 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 379 votes that split the parties. Lower than 53% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
20/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +2

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

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.37

Democratic middle 80%: -0.48 to -0.21

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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Menendez’s bills that passed the Senate or further

All bills

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