Thomas R. Carper

Former Senator from Delaware, 2001–2025 · 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
2.01· expected 1.14

Above expectations

Rank 12 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

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

  1. Introduced 25
  2. Action in committee 8
  3. Action beyond committee 8
  4. Passed chamber 5
  5. Became law 2

25 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 23 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (2)

2 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

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

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
99/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 4 missed of 691

Voted on 687 of 691 roll calls; missed 4. Higher than 89% of senators.

50%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 30 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 533 votes that split the parties. Higher than 68% of senators.

40%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
19/ 100

Chamber median 18 · +1

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

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
−0.18

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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Carper’s bills that became law

All bills

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

2 national policy

How we count words

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