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Thomas R. Carper

Democrat · U.S. Senate, Delaware

First took office in 1983. No longer serving.

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Attendance grade

A 99.42%

A — Strong attendance

687 of 691 eligible recorded votes.

12th of 118 Senate members by attendance — higher than 89.8% of them.

Attendance is the only graded category so far. Four more — consistency, effectiveness, bipartisanship and responsiveness — are listed below with what each will measure. There is no overall grade until they exist.

Grades

Five categories are planned, each with its formula published. One is graded today. Readers will be able to set their own weights across the categories once there is more than one to weigh — how attendance is graded.

Attendance

Graded above

Recorded votes cast, out of the recorded votes they were eligible for.

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Consistency

Not yet graded

Votes against the priorities the member has stated publicly, with compromises accounted for.

Effectiveness

Not yet graded

How far the bills they introduced actually moved, and how many became law.

Bipartisanship

Not yet graded

Cross-aisle cosponsors on their own bills, and votes cast with the other party's majority.

Responsiveness

Not yet graded

The share of requests for comment their office answers within 14 days.

Every recorded vote, by whose majority they sided with

  • With the Democratic majority only 532 · 77.4%
  • With both party majorities 148 · 21.5%
  • With the Republican majority only 5 · 0.7%
  • Against both party majorities 2 · 0.3%

One dot is 10 votes; the exact count is beside each line. A party's majority on a roll call is whichever of yea or nay it cast more of; on a tie that party has no majority to side with. 687 of this member's recorded votes are placed by the rule. The other 4 are not: a “present” or absent position takes no side, and some roll calls (a Speaker election, for instance) have no yea/nay totals at all. The full rule.

Attendance across the Senate (118 graded)

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Priorities and work

Stated priorities

Not collected yet. Their own public statements — press releases, floor speeches, campaign issue pages, official social accounts — will appear here, each beside how they voted on it.

Record summary

Attendance percentile

89.8%

12th of 118 in the Senate

Cross-aisle support

33.33%

voted yes on 17 of 51 opposing-party bills

Yea / Nay share

80.79% / 19.21%

of 687 cast — not an approval measure

Sponsored · cosponsored

36 · 199

bills sponsored · cosponsored

Became law

2 of 36

enacted under their own bill number

Committees

The committee roster lists no current assignment for this member.

Bills they introduced

36

2 became law.

The newest 10 of 36. The rest are in the activity below and on the official list.

Bills they cosponsored

199

The newest 10 of 199. The rest are in the activity below and on the official list.

Activity

Newest first, 1,200 rows in all. Recorded votes show the bill's title and the official question verbatim, and link to the official record; an absence shows the stated reason when one exists. Actions on the bills this member introduced are the government's own wording, word for word. How statements and votes are paired.

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