Labora Collective · The Record

Every member of Congress,
on the evidence.

537 sitting members. Each one scored on documented roll-call votes, against a rubric that was written and approved before any score existed. Open a card to see every vote behind the grade, and the official roll call it came from.

It is not finished. We are publishing it while it is being built, and the empty seats are on purpose — a member with too thin a record is shown as thin, never handed a bad grade to fill a gap.

A grade of what, exactly

Not how liberal or conservative someone is. Not how hard they work, how often they show up, or whether we like them. One question only: when a recorded vote touched one of these subjects, which way did they vote?

  • Reproductive & maternal
  • Children & family
  • Health access & coverage
  • Equity & rights
  • Judicial & structural
  • Violence & safety

A vote that protects people on those subjects counts up. A vote that takes protection away counts down. Each subject carries a published weight, and the result is a number from 0 to 100 — then a letter.

  • A80–100
  • B65–79
  • C50–64
  • D35–49
  • F0–34

It is not a curve. The cutoffs above were fixed before a single score existed, so the spread is whatever the votes produced — not a ranking we shaped. Every vote behind every letter is listed on the member’s card, with a link to the official roll call. Check it.

356Members graded
537Seats tracked
87/100of 100 senators
269/437of 437 House seats
35Senate seats on the 2026 ballot
66% graded · 166 record too thin · 15 awaiting a first mapped vote

The board

A grade requires votes across at least 5 of the 8 rubric dimensions. Below that we show the record as too thin rather than summarising it — most of those are members elected recently who simply have not faced the mapped votes yet.

Every card opens, for everyone. All 537 members, every vote we scored, and a link to the official roll call behind each one. No signup, nothing held back.

What the letter means

A composite from 0 to 100, then a letter. It is not a curve — the cutoffs are fixed and the distribution is whatever the votes produce.

  • A 80–100 91
  • B 65–79 88
  • C 50–64 3
  • D 35–49 7
  • F 0–34 167

The eight dimensions, and what each is worth

  • Reproductive & maternal 24
  • Children & family 20
  • Health access & coverage 16
  • Equity & rights 11
  • Judicial & structural 10
  • Violence & safety 9
  • Immigration & access to care 6
  • Data & science integrity 4

Nobody reaches 8 of 8: Immigration & access to care and Data & science integrity have no scored vote yet, so in practice the board runs on 6. That is a gap in our mapping, not a sign that Congress has been idle — on immigration in particular it has voted repeatedly and appropriated heavily for enforcement. Those votes exist and are recorded; we have not finished mapping them.

Read this before you read the grades

On the measures mapped so far, voting was almost perfectly party-line. No Republican scored above 64; no Democrat below 66. The distributions do not overlap.

That is a result, not a thumb on the scale. The rubric was written and approved before any score existed, and every vote behind every grade is listed on the card with a link to the official record. Check it.

Votes span 2013–2025, and about half come from 2021–22. That is our backlog, not our judgement. It is the order we happened to map bills in — not a view that those years matter more, and not a finding about Congress. It is also why a member elected recently shows so little: we have not yet reached the votes they were present for.

Go deeper than the board

The board is free and always will be. Labora Collective members get the deep dives on top of it — what a bill actually does, what changed between versions, who moved and when — plus the working notes: which measure is being mapped next, what got rejected and why, and the decision record behind every scoring call.