How the scoring changes over time

Version history

Money data fix 2026-11-15

• No score changes. Joint fundraising committees are no longer counted as a member's own committee: only each member's allocated share (FEC memo type 15J on their own committee's report) is counted, once. Twenty members' individual totals fall by $43.1M in all, the largest Steve Scalise ($22.9M to $4.4M) and Tom Emmer ($13.7M to $5.1M).
• Transfers from joint fundraising committees and between a member's own committees are no longer counted as PAC gifts: $6.6M across 178 members, the largest Dave McCormick ($3.24M to $1.80M) and Mike Johnson ($5.12M to $4.12M). 44 such committees drop off the PAC and group pages.

Rules 0.11.1 2026-11-15

• Corrects a loading error in 0.11. The approved set was the decisions page as written, which scores the Senate's Stop Insider Trading Act cloture vote (weight 3, contested) and leaves out the CFPB payment-app rule vote. 0.11 had these reversed. The Senate now has a stock-trading vote in Personal integrity. Before and after rankings against 0.10: docs/rank-changes-v0.11.csv.

Rules 0.11 2026-11-15

• Approved by the project lead as the recommended set from the scoring decisions page.
• New ninth category, Workers and health care (health insurance costs, Medicare and Medicaid, wages, unions and bargaining, retirement and benefits). Under evidence weighting it starts at a low weight until more votes are approved.
• 20 more roll calls now scored. Senate: photo ID to vote (S. 5271 cloture, the Husted amendment) and citizens-only registration with photo ID (Lee amendment); the HALT Fentanyl Act; overturning the IRS crypto broker rule and the FCC E-Rate hotspot rule (the CFPB payment-app rule was listed here in error; see 0.11.1); and two 2025 reconciliation amendments on Medicaid for people here illegally. House: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, the D.C. CRIMES Act, D.C. cash bail reform, D.C. Policing Protection Act, Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, no non-citizen voting in D.C., the Critical Minerals Supply Act, limits on Confucius Institutes and Chinese entities, no ESG mandates in retirement plans, sanctions for misused child care grants, and the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act.
• Left unscored for now: the contested health and union votes (including the ACA subsidy votes), the minimum wage, Faster Labor Contracts and flexible training hours votes, the Posse Comitatus amendment, the CFPB overdraft rule and the Senate stock trading cloture vote.
• One bill, one weight: scored roll calls on the same bill in the same chamber and category share the largest one's weight.
• The HALT Fentanyl Act now weighs 2 in both chambers (it became law). The two 2025 global tariff votes in the Senate are marked contested, like the other tariff votes. Contested now needs two named America First voices on opposite sides.
• New subcategories: Policing and public order (Crime), Waste and fraud (Spending). Before and after rankings: docs/rank-changes-v0.11.csv.

Rules 0.10 2026-11-15

• Category weight now grows with the evidence behind it: points ÷ (points + 6) in each chamber, times any category weight in the rules. A category backed by one vote no longer counts as much as one backed by ten. Approved by the project lead (scoring review, proposal 1).
• Country cap: in Foreign entanglements, the votes that name a single country count together for at most 3 points per chamber, the same cap for every country. Today it trims the Senate votes about Israel and the House votes about Ukraine, the two places where more roll calls were held about one country (proposal 2).
• Attendance is now scored: Personal integrity includes a 2-point attendance item from every roll call since 2025. Full credit for missing 2% or less, none for missing 20% or more, partial credit in between. The Senate now has a Personal integrity score (proposal 3).
• Ranks are shown as a range (90% of redraws) with the point rank beneath, and tied scores are marked as tied (proposal 4). Before and after rankings: docs/rank-changes-v0.10.csv.

Rules 0.9 2026-11-15

• 12 more roll calls from 2026 now scored, approved by the project lead: the 2026 budget resolution for border enforcement (House and Senate), the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Act, final House passage of the 2026 omnibus, the January State and foreign operations funding bill, the balanced budget amendment, the Critical Mineral Dominance Act, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act, and three agency-power bills (Information Quality Assurance, Monitor Accountability, Don't Mess With My Home Appliances).
• The seven 2026 war powers votes are not scored yet, pending a decision to score all of them or none.

Rules 0.8 2026-11-15

• 12 more roll calls from 2026 now scored, approved by the project lead: the Deporting Fraudsters Act, the Cashless Bail Reporting Act, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, the Haiti TPS designation bill, Iran war powers (House roll 199 and Senate roll 184), a House FISA 702 extension, the Boundary Waters mining disapprovals (House and Senate), Senate passage of the Russian-oil sanctions bill, and Senate passage of the 2026 omnibus.
• New crime subcategory: Bail and repeat offenders.

Rules 0.7 2026-11-14

• 16 roll calls from 2026 now scored, approved by the project lead: the Secure America Act (House and Senate), Homeland Security funding, the 2026 omnibus, the 2027 budget resolution, the Ukraine Support Act, 2027 State Department and foreign aid funding, Iran war powers (House and Senate), ending the Canada tariff emergency, FISA 702 extension, the congressional stock-buying ban, and Senate amendments on ICE funding, refugee funding, foreign aid cuts and Russian-oil duties.
• Ten of them are marked contested where America First voices disagree.
• Vote ids now include the session (for example rep-119-2-207), since roll numbers restart each year.

Rules 0.6 2026-11-14

• No scoring changes. New: search-first home page with the highest and lowest five in each chamber, member photos, quick search (press / or Ctrl+K), and ZIP code lookup using the Census Bureau's 119th Congress district files.
• Compare two or three members side by side, including the votes where they split.
• Filters are kept in the link, so any view can be shared.
• Corrections form and this public change log.
• Data download: JSON and CSV of members, votes and every member's vote.
• Download a member's score card as an image; each member has a share link with a preview.
• Daily refresh queues new roll calls for review; nothing is scored without a person assigning it.

Rules 0.5 2026-11-14

• All 535 members of Congress (plus members who left office after casting a tracked vote). Delegates from DC and the territories aren't ranked, since they can't vote on final passage.
• Every roll call is now read directly from the official House Clerk and senate.gov XML, kept in raw/, and checked against the official yea and nay totals. All earlier hand-entered Georgia votes matched.
• Nikema Williams' House votes filled in.
• Ranks are within each chamber, since the House and Senate vote on different roll calls.
• State and district filters; search also matches state and seat.
• Votes that favor a country by ending tariffs on it are labeled "trade", not "arms".

Rules 0.4 2026-11-14

• Senate votes added: ending tariff emergencies on Canada (April and October), Brazil, and globally (April and October); requiring Congress to authorize hostilities against Iran.
• Canada and Brazil are now tracked countries.
• House: final rescissions approval (roll 203, the rule H.Res. 590 that adopted the bill) and Greene's amendments to strike Taiwan Security Cooperation funding (roll 205) and $500M for Israeli missile defense (roll 207).
• "Money voted to send" now counts the money a member voted to keep in a bill, not only yes votes on aid bills.

Rules 0.3 2026-11-14

• Member profile pages with shareable links, score over time by Congress, and a methodology page.

Rules 0.2 2026-11-14

• Eight categories with subcategories. Foreign support tracked by country for every country alike. Money voted to send, with flags. Party removed as a visual cue.

Rules 0.1 2026-11-14

• First prototype: Georgia's delegation, 2025 roll calls.