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Government Operations and Politics

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Government Operations and Politics. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Government Operations and Politics

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DLucille Roybal-Allard99.1% · 533 votesDJohn R. Lewis98.7% · 545 votesDLouise McIntosh Slaughter98.7% · 537 votesDJerrold Lewis Nadler98.6% · 577 votesDNancy Pelosi98.5% · 538 votesDJames Enos Clyburn98.5% · 585 votesDMaxine Waters98.5% · 584 votesDNydia M. Velázquez98.4% · 580 votesDSander Martin Levin98% · 591 votesDLloyd Alton Doggett II97.9% · 578 votesDBennie Thompson97.7% · 571 votesDRosa L. DeLauro97.6% · 595 votesDAnna Georges Eshoo97.6% · 575 votesDRobert C. Scott97.5% · 601 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman97.3% · 587 votesDRichard Edmund Neal97.3% · 623 votesDNita M. Lowey97.2% · 538 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer97.2% · 750 votesDCharles B. Rangel97% · 675 votesDZoe Lofgren96.8% · 565 votesDDavid Eugene Price96.8% · 533 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.96.5% · 576 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.96.4% · 695 votesDCarolyn Bosher Maloney96.3% · 534 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.95.9% · 638 votesDEdward John Markey95.1% · 567 votesDGeorge Miller94.1% · 593 votesDJames Louis Oberstar93.7% · 542 votesDPeter Visclosky93.4% · 605 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio93.3% · 611 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.6% · 611 votesDDale Edward Kildee92.3% · 548 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur91.7% · 720 votesDDavid Ross Obey90.9% · 551 votesDSanford Dixon Bishop Jr.86.8% · 577 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd81.3% · 545 votesDNick Joe Rahall II77.9% · 566 votesRRalph Straus Regula22.1% · 547 votesRThomas Evert Petri21.1% · 541 votesRChristopher Henry Smith19.4% · 756 votesRDonald Edwin Young15.3% · 752 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton15.1% · 614 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young14.6% · 575 votesRCharles Ernest Grassley9.8% · 539 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.6% · 697 votesRLamar Seeligson Smith5.4% · 535 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers4.8% · 752 votesRKen Calvert3.5% · 592 votesRJoe Linus Barton3.2% · 537 votesRFrank D. Lucas2.1% · 579 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Government Operations and Politics votes, of 2,582 who have cast one and 2,501 with enough to score. A further 3 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Government Operations and Politics breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationGovernment Operations and Politics
Christopher Henry Smith−7.3 pts
Thomas Evert Petri+5.6 pts
Nick Joe Rahall II−5.4 pts
Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers−5.3 pts

Christopher Henry Smith sided with Democrats 8 points less often on Government Operations and Politics than on legislation overall. Thomas Evert Petri went the other way by 6.

Policy areas

Government Operations and Politics

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Government Operations and Politics. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Government Operations and Politics

MemberWith Dems · votes
DLucille Roybal-Allard99.1% · 533 votesDJohn R. Lewis98.7% · 545 votesDLouise McIntosh Slaughter98.7% · 537 votesDJerrold Lewis Nadler98.6% · 577 votesDNancy Pelosi98.5% · 538 votesDJames Enos Clyburn98.5% · 585 votesDMaxine Waters98.5% · 584 votesDNydia M. Velázquez98.4% · 580 votesDSander Martin Levin98% · 591 votesDLloyd Alton Doggett II97.9% · 578 votesDBennie Thompson97.7% · 571 votesDRosa L. DeLauro97.6% · 595 votesDAnna Georges Eshoo97.6% · 575 votesDRobert C. Scott97.5% · 601 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman97.3% · 587 votesDRichard Edmund Neal97.3% · 623 votesDNita M. Lowey97.2% · 538 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer97.2% · 750 votesDCharles B. Rangel97% · 675 votesDZoe Lofgren96.8% · 565 votesDDavid Eugene Price96.8% · 533 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.96.5% · 576 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.96.4% · 695 votesDCarolyn Bosher Maloney96.3% · 534 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.95.9% · 638 votesDEdward John Markey95.1% · 567 votesDGeorge Miller94.1% · 593 votesDJames Louis Oberstar93.7% · 542 votesDPeter Visclosky93.4% · 605 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio93.3% · 611 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.6% · 611 votesDDale Edward Kildee92.3% · 548 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur91.7% · 720 votesDDavid Ross Obey90.9% · 551 votesDSanford Dixon Bishop Jr.86.8% · 577 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd81.3% · 545 votesDNick Joe Rahall II77.9% · 566 votesRRalph Straus Regula22.1% · 547 votesRThomas Evert Petri21.1% · 541 votesRChristopher Henry Smith19.4% · 756 votesRDonald Edwin Young15.3% · 752 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton15.1% · 614 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young14.6% · 575 votesRCharles Ernest Grassley9.8% · 539 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.6% · 697 votesRLamar Seeligson Smith5.4% · 535 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers4.8% · 752 votesRKen Calvert3.5% · 592 votesRJoe Linus Barton3.2% · 537 votesRFrank D. Lucas2.1% · 579 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Government Operations and Politics votes, of 2,582 who have cast one and 2,501 with enough to score. A further 3 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Government Operations and Politics breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationGovernment Operations and Politics
Christopher Henry Smith−7.3 pts
Thomas Evert Petri+5.6 pts
Nick Joe Rahall II−5.4 pts
Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers−5.3 pts

Christopher Henry Smith sided with Democrats 8 points less often on Government Operations and Politics than on legislation overall. Thomas Evert Petri went the other way by 6.

How areas work

1Each bill's area comes from the Library of Congress subject terms.
2Only contested votes count, as everywhere else.
3A member with too few votes in an area is listed with the count, not hidden — "too few to score" and "no contested votes" are different claims.
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