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Sheldon Whitehouse

Democrat · U.S. Senate, Rhode Island

In office since 2007.

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Attendance grade

C 96.82%

C — Fair attendance

1,555 of 1,606 eligible recorded votes.

61st of 118 Senate members by attendance — higher than 47.5% 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.

Open the formula

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 1,297 · 83.4%
  • With both party majorities 207 · 13.3%
  • With the Republican majority only 42 · 2.7%
  • Against both party majorities 9 · 0.6%

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. 1,555 of this member's recorded votes are placed by the rule. The other 51 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

47.5%

61st of 118 in the Senate

Cross-aisle support

26%

voted yes on 26 of 100 opposing-party bills

Yea / Nay share

54.21% / 45.79%

of 1,555 cast — not an approval measure

Sponsored · cosponsored

164 · 1,027

bills sponsored · cosponsored

Became law

1 of 164

enacted under their own bill number

Committees

Bills they introduced

164

1 became law.

The newest 10 of 164. The rest are in the activity below and on the official list.

Bills they cosponsored

1,027

The newest 10 of 1,027. The rest are in the activity below and on the official list.

Activity

Newest first, 2,100 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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