Steve Daines

U.S. Senator · Montana · Republican

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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
1.89· expected 1.04

Above expectations

Rank 12 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 32 majority-party members without a committee lead

How far Daines’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 11
  4. Passed chamber 2
  5. Became law 2

51 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 50 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (2)

1 Crow Nation-specific · 1 national policy

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)

Daines’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 Daines’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 Daines.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
97/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 26 missed of 915

Voted on 889 of 915 roll calls; missed 26. Lower than 62% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 13 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 815 votes that split the parties. Higher than 86% of senators.

75%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
8/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 55% of senators.

0%30%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.59

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 66 (median 61) · cosponsored 354 (median 307.5), 192 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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Sponsored

Cosponsored