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
0.47· expected 0.63

Meets expectations

Rank 78 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 29 minority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 49
  2. Action in committee 5
  3. Action beyond committee 2
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 0

49 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 46 substantive, 1 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Baldwin’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 Baldwin.

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

100/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 1 missed of 915

Voted on 914 of 915 roll calls; missed 1. Higher than 96% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
98/ 100

Senate D median 96 · Rank 17 of 47

Sided with the Democratic majority on 839 votes that split the parties. Lower than 61% of senators.

75%100%
8/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 73% of senators.

0%30%
−0.48

Democratic middle 80%: -0.51 to -0.23

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

All bills

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