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.

Ryan K. Zinke

U.S. Representative · MT-1 · Republican

Follow Sample brief Official website

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.47· expected 1.41

Below expectations

Rank 269 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 14
  2. Action in committee 5
  3. Action beyond committee 2
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

14 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 0 significant (got a roll call vote), 14 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Zinke’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 Zinke.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
97/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 20 missed of 674

Voted on 654 of 674 roll calls; missed 20. Lower than 69% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
97/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 143 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 466 votes that split the parties. Lower than 63% of House members.

45%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
13/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 64% of House members.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.44

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.

LiberalConservative

Zinke’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

5 bills and joint resolutions sponsored in the 119th Congress, furthest along first. These are the bills counted in Zinke’s effectiveness score.

How we count words
  • H.R. 8665 Allied Defense Sales ActModifies procedures for selling defense equipment and services to allied nations. AI-readInternational Affairs · Passed a chamber Jun 9, 2026Substantive568 words Passed a chamber
  • H.R. 3613 Streamlining Foreign Military Sales Act of 2025Streamlines procedures for foreign military sales by the United States. AI-readInternational Affairs · Out of committee Jul 22, 2025Substantive177 words Out of committee
  • H.R. 1762 Forest Service Accountability ActModifies Forest Service operations, accountability, or management practices. AI-readPublic Lands and Natural Resources · In committee Mar 28, 2025Substantive299 words In committee
  • H.R. 718 Public Lands in Public Hands ActEstablishes requirements for federal land management and public access to public lands. AI-readPublic Lands and Natural Resources · In committee Feb 28, 2025Substantive378 words In committee
  • H.R. 598 FIR ActExempts Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management from reinitiating consultation when species are listed as threatened or endangered. AI-readPublic Lands and Natural Resources · In committee Feb 28, 2025Substantive320 words In committee

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