The grade is a weighted average of three scores. Change the weights to match what matters to you. They always add up to 100, so moving one adjusts the other two.
How grades are calculated
Vote attendance
This is the share of roll-call votes the member cast while in office. Voting "present" counts as attending. 100% attendance scores 100 points and 85% or lower scores 0, on a straight line in between. By custom the Speaker of the House votes only occasionally, so the votes they skip as Speaker aren't counted against them. Delegates from DC and the territories are counted only on the votes they are allowed to cast.
Bills written
Bills and joint resolutions the member sponsored, with points for how far each one got: introduced (1), acted on in committee (3), passed a chamber (6), became law (10). The member is ranked against their own chamber: the top member scores 100, the chamber average scores 75 (a C) and the lowest scores 50. Simple resolutions, such as commemorations, don't count.
Bills supported
The number of bills and joint resolutions the member cosponsored, ranked within their chamber the same way: 100 for the top member, 75 for the average, 50 for the lowest.
Letter grade
A ≥ 93, A− ≥ 90, B+ ≥ 87, B ≥ 83, B− ≥ 80, and so on down to F below 60. A member who joined partway through the Congress gets a partial term label. Their bill counts cover less time, so read those grades with care.
Data: rosters from congress-legislators, roll-call votes from Voteview, legislation from Congress.gov, ZIP code districts from the Census Bureau. Bill progress is inferred from each bill's latest action. Read the full methodology.
What this site does
Congress Report Card grades every current member of Congress, including the six non-voting delegates, on the parts of the job the public record can measure: whether they show up to vote, whether they write legislation that moves, and how many of their colleagues' bills they support. Search for your own members above by name, state or ZIP code, or select any card to see the numbers behind the grade.
The grades are nonpartisan. No vote is scored as right or wrong, no issue position counts, and every member is graded by the same formula. The data comes from Voteview and Congress.gov and is rebuilt every night. More about the project.
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