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Democrat · Connecticut House, district 136

Serving since Jan 7, 2011CT 2025–26 session

Portrait of Jonathan Steinberg, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
5.7%
of roll calls missed, attendance in the bottom quarter of the Connecticut House

Attendance 94.3%; the average within the Connecticut House is 96.7%. Ranks 129th of 151, where 1st has the highest attendance. 754 roll calls in the CT 2025–26 session.

Attendance is the share of the roll calls Steinberg could vote on where a yea, nay or present was recorded, ranked within the Connecticut House. A missed vote has many causes, from illness to campaigning; the number says how often, not why.

At a glance

6 measures against the Connecticut House. 18% of the 11 bills Steinberg sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Connecticut House. Steinberg voted against the majority of Connecticut House Democrats 18 times; party unity 93.2%, in the bottom quarter of the Connecticut House (average 95.0%).

The measures on which Steinberg sits furthest from the middle of the Connecticut House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Attendance

94.3%

Connecticut House average 96.7% · ranks 129th of 151 · 754 roll calls

Out of committee

18%

Connecticut House average 35% · ranks 124th of 150

Party unity

93.2%

Connecticut House average 95.0% · ranks 114th of 151 · 18 votes against the majority of Connecticut House Democrats

From Connecticut, 2024

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 60th of 149 State House Democrats

Itemized, 2024

$7,805

State House Democrats’ median $5,075 · ranks 66th of 163

CSIP ideology

−0.57

More conservative than 58% of State House Democrats · ± 0.06

Peer group: Connecticut House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Steinberg, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Steinberg is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Steinberg says

No statements for the CT 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the CT 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Steinberg sits at −0.57 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more conservative than 58% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.63 to −0.51, which understates the uncertainty; from 352 donors and 385 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

−0.57

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.63 to −0.51. From 352 donors and 385 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Steinberg −0.6State House Democrats −0.6Connecticut House −0.7All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Steinberg, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Steinberg’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Steinberg sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6Steinberg −0.6Connecticut Housemedian −0.7All State Housemedian +0.1
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Steinberg's CSIP score of −0.57 placed against State House Democrats, Connecticut House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Steinberg
State House Democrats2392−0.657%
Connecticut House151−0.756%
All State House5324+0.126%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Steinberg in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Steinberg.

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Money

Steinberg reported $7,805 in the 2024 cycle, above the State House Democrats’ median of $5,075. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Connecticut.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$7,805

itemized in the 2024 cycle

From 175 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $5,075.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2024 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$7,805
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Sources of Steinberg's money, 2024 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$7,805100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2024. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2024.

2020 cycle: $6,225$6,22520202022 cycle: $8,390$8,39020222024 cycle: $7,805$7,8052024State House Democrats median $5,075
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Steinberg's receipts by cycle against the 2024 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$6,225
2022 cycle$8,390
2024 cycle$7,805

Top donor states, 2024

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Connecticut.

  1. Connecticut$7,780
  2. New York$25

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: $25NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: $7,780CTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Steinberg's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2024 cycle
StateValue
Connecticut$7,780
New York$25
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
175

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Connecticut

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Connecticut. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$2,585 48 donors
  2. HOMEMAKER$470 5 donors
  3. ATTORNEY$455 10 donors
  4. UNEMPLOYED$400 9 donors
  5. CONSULTANT$330 8 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2024 cycle.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2024 cycle.

  1. AMAZON$65 3 donors
  2. STUDENT$60 4 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Steinberg voted with the majority of Connecticut House Democrats on 93.2% of party-line votes and missed 5.7% of 754 roll calls. Connecticut House on average: 95.0% party unity, 96.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Steinberg voted against the majority of Connecticut House Democrats 18 times.

754 roll calls Steinberg could vote on in the CT 2025–26 session, compared with Connecticut House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Steinberg voted with the majority of Connecticut House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

18

votes against the majority of Connecticut House Democrats

Party unity 93.2%, Connecticut House average 95.0%, ranks 114th of 151. 754 roll calls in the CT 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Steinberg, the thin grey bar the Connecticut House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Steinberg
Peers
Rank
Attendance
94.3%
96.7%
129th of 151
Party unity
93.2%
95.0%
114th of 151
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Steinberg's attendance and party unity against Connecticut House.
RowSteinbergPeers
Attendance94.3%96.7%
Party unity93.2%95.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the CT 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 6, 2026
SB 391
AN ACT CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY OF BREAST CANCER SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR WOMEN COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 49–0Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
HB 5563
AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROPOSALS, CERTIFICATES OF APPROVAL FOR AIRPORTS, HELIPORTS, VERTIPORTS, RESTRICTED LANDING AREAS AND OTHER AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES, POLICE COLLABORATION WITH SOCIAL WORKERS, SURVEILLANCE PRICING, EDUCATION COST SHARING AND WITHHOLDING OF
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 49–0Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 307
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REVISIONS TO THE COMMERCE STATUTES AND PROHIBITING SCHOLARSHIP DISPLACEMENT FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 100–0 · R 49–0Democrats 100 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 306
AN ACT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY STRATEGY.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 47–2Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 47 yea, 2 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 220
AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT LITERACY, ASPIRING EDUCATORS, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS PART OF THE WORLD LANGUAGES CURRICULUM AND THE PARAEDUCATOR HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN SUBSIDY PROGRAM.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 100–1 · R 49–0Democrats 100 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Steinberg most often

  1. Matt RitterD711 shared votes98%
  2. Moira RaderD678 shared votes98%
  3. Al PaolilloD711 shared votes98%
  4. Renee MuirD710 shared votes98%
  5. Jason RojasD703 shared votes98%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Steinberg least often

  1. Anne DauphinaisR709 shared votes64%
  2. Gale MastrofrancescoR669 shared votes64%
  3. Craig FishbeinR630 shared votes68%
  4. John PiscopoR711 shared votes69%
  5. Cara Pavalock-D'AmatoR692 shared votes70%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

CT 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Steinberg sponsored 11 bills in the CT 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 18% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Connecticut House average 35%; 124th of 150).

The bills Steinberg sponsored and cosponsored in the CT 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the CT 2025–26 session

Sponsored11 billsSponsored, Introduced: 1111Sponsored, In committee: 1111Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 22Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 11Sponsored, Became law: 11Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Steinberg sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored1111211
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Steinberg sponsored, ochre blocks bills Steinberg cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

18%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Connecticut House average 35%. Ranks 124th of 150.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Steinberg, by number of shared bills in the CT 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Josh Elliott4
  2. Steven Winter4
  3. Nick Menapace4
  4. Mary Mushinsky3
  5. M.J. Shannon3
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Steinberg’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
SB 386AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN PARTY CAUCUSES, CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES, INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARIES, AND IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.SponsorMar 12, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. Apr 14, 2026
HB 5289AN ACT CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF MUNICIPAL LEGAL NOTICES.SponsorMar 9, 2026Passed one chamberGovernment Operations and Politics(model)SEN. RECOMMITTED TO PD Apr 23, 2026
HB 5143AN ACT REQUIRING TRAINING FOR HOMEMAKER-COMPANION AGENCY EMPLOYEES.SponsorMar 5, 2026Became lawLabor and Employment(model)SIGNED BY GOVERNOR May 20, 2026
SB 195AN ACT CONCERNING THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE DEATHS AND IMPROVING ACCESS TO TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICES FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.SponsorMar 3, 2026In committeeHealth(model)FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. Apr 20, 2026
HB 5144AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR SCHOOL MEALS.SponsorFeb 13, 2026In committeeAgriculture and Food(model)PUBLIC HEARING 0305 Feb 27, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 2 times in 90 days. Steinberg’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Steinberg’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Steinberg posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Steinberg posted

No images from Steinberg’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

1,018 turns, Apr 19, 2021 to May 6, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Steinberg is most unusual among Connecticut House, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

America’s Political Pulse · Polarization Research Lab

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