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Tom Cole

U.S. Representative · OK-4 · Republican · Chair, Appropriations

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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
10.52· expected 1.91

Above expectations

Rank 2 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 24 majority-party committee chairs

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

  1. Introduced 15
  2. Action in committee 9
  3. Action beyond committee 9
  4. Passed chamber 8
  5. Became law 5

15 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 8 significant (got a roll call vote), 7 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

Became law (5)

5 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)

Cole’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 Cole’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 Cole.

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

Attendance

How it’s measured
99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 8 missed of 674

Voted on 666 of 674 roll calls; missed 8. Higher than 69% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
96/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 185 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 466 votes that split the parties. Lower than 79% of House members.

45%100%

Bipartisan

How it’s measured
16/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +4

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 86% of House members.

0%70%

Position

How it’s measured
+0.32

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.

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

All bills

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