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.

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
1.67· expected 1.41

Meets expectations

Rank 76 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 195 majority-party members without a committee lead

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

  1. Introduced 23
  2. Action in committee 6
  3. Action beyond committee 6
  4. Passed chamber 6
  5. Became law 0

23 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 2 significant (got a roll call vote), 21 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Balderson’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 Balderson.

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

99/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 9 missed of 674

Voted on 665 of 674 roll calls; missed 9. Higher than 64% of House members.

15%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 78 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 465 votes that split the parties. Higher than 59% of House members.

45%100%
13/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 60% of House members.

0%70%
+0.46

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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Balderson’s bills that got action in committee or further

All bills

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