Bipartisanship
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32%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the top quarter of Senate Republicans
32% of 66 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for Senate Republicans is 22%. Ranks 11th of 51, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Daines sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked among Senate Republicans. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
At a glance
6 measures against Senate Republicans. The policy areas Daines talks about and legislates on agree at 0.69 on a 0–1 scale, in the top quarter of Senate Republicans. 66% of Daines’s statements discuss policy, in the bottom half of Senate Republicans (average 70%).
The measures on which Daines sits furthest from the middle of Senate Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Out of committee
32%
Senate Republicans average 22% · ranks 11th of 51
Talk-to-bills agreement
0.69
Senate Republicans average 0.64 · ranks 11th of 52
Policy discussion
66%
Senate Republicans average 70% · ranks 39th of 52
Party unity
99.8%
Senate Republicans average 98.4% · ranks 13th of 53 · 3 votes against the majority of Senate Republicans
Extreme labels
3.0%
Senate Republicans average 2.9% · ranks 18th of 52
CSIP ideology
+1.02
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.01
Peer group: Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Daines, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Daines is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Daines says
Daines attacks opponents personally less than 59% of Senate Republicans. Personal attacks in 0.6% of 2,049 statements, against 2.1% for the average Senate Republican; 32nd of 52.
An AI model reads each of Daines’s 2,049 statements in the 119th Congress (1,581 posts on X, 395 press releases, 58 Congressional Record speeches, 15 newsletters) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for Senate Republicans and ranked among them.
Kinds of statement
Share of statements carrying each label, the 119th Congress
0%80%
Daines
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion1,360 statements
66%
70%
39th of 52
Credit claiming807 statements
39%
36%
20th of 52
Policy criticism317 statements
15%
17%
31st of 52
Bipartisanship203 statements
10%
13%
31st of 52
Personal attacks12 statements
1%
2%
32nd of 52
Show the data
| Row | Daines | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 66% | 70% |
| Credit claiming | 39% | 36% |
| Policy criticism | 15% | 17% |
| Bipartisanship | 10% | 13% |
| Personal attacks | 1% | 2% |
2,049
statements classified
1,581 posts on X, 395 press releases, 58 Congressional Record speeches, 15 newsletters.
Show the data
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 1,581 |
| press releases | 395 |
| Congressional Record speeches | 58 |
| newsletters | 15 |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is Daines; the thin grey bar is the average Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Daines does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Extreme labels
Daines used extreme labels in 3.0% of statements, close to the peer average. 61 statements, most often aimed at radical left; peers 2.9%.
- “radical”36
- “far left”14
- “woke”5
- “extreme”2
- “communist”1
Who gets the labels
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
- radical left4
- Chuck Schumer3
- Democratic Party3
- Democrats3
- left3
What an extreme label is
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Month by month
Share of statements per month, the 119th Congress
Show the data
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 111 | 0.9% | 29.7% | 67.6% | 7.2% | 60.4% | 12.6% |
| Feb ’25 | 94 | 0.0% | 17.0% | 79.8% | 14.9% | 62.8% | 2.1% |
| Mar ’25 | 106 | 0.0% | 17.0% | 71.7% | 11.3% | 47.2% | 3.8% |
| Apr ’25 | 90 | 1.1% | 11.1% | 55.6% | 7.8% | 37.8% | 5.6% |
| May ’25 | 80 | 1.3% | 18.8% | 68.8% | 11.3% | 46.3% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’25 | 124 | 0.8% | 15.3% | 66.9% | 8.1% | 33.9% | 1.6% |
| Jul ’25 | 126 | 1.6% | 11.9% | 65.9% | 8.7% | 37.3% | 3.2% |
| Aug ’25 | 57 | 1.8% | 15.8% | 73.7% | 8.8% | 43.9% | 1.8% |
| Sep ’25 | 105 | 0.9% | 20.0% | 65.7% | 10.5% | 34.3% | 3.8% |
| Oct ’25 | 131 | 2.3% | 25.2% | 61.1% | 8.4% | 37.4% | 7.6% |
| Nov ’25 | 89 | 0.0% | 30.3% | 56.2% | 16.9% | 29.2% | 5.6% |
| Dec ’25 | 136 | 0.0% | 15.4% | 71.3% | 6.6% | 44.1% | 1.5% |
| Jan ’26 | 130 | 0.0% | 6.9% | 66.1% | 6.2% | 30.8% | 0.8% |
| Feb ’26 | 107 | 0.0% | 10.3% | 65.4% | 9.3% | 41.1% | 0.9% |
| Mar ’26 | 82 | 0.0% | 11.0% | 61.0% | 8.5% | 36.6% | 4.9% |
| Apr ’26 | 80 | 0.0% | 7.5% | 68.8% | 10.0% | 36.3% | 1.3% |
| May ’26 | 70 | 0.0% | 7.1% | 74.3% | 15.7% | 40.0% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 98 | 0.0% | 11.2% | 56.1% | 12.2% | 38.8% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’26 | 77 | 0.0% | 15.6% | 58.4% | 14.3% | 27.3% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’26 | 43 | 2.3% | 14.0% | 76.7% | 7.0% | 27.9% | 0.0% |
| Sep ’26 | 71 | 0.0% | 11.3% | 80.3% | 7.0% | 31.0% | 1.4% |
| Oct ’26 | 42 | 0.0% | 7.1% | 52.4% | 14.3% | 26.2% | 0.0% |
How to read the strips
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the 119th Congress, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%.
In Daines’s words
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Personal attacks
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Aug 26, 2026 · Posts on X · personal attacks · Source
Extreme label
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Sep 16, 2026 · Posts on X · policy discussion; Agriculture and Food; Economics and Public Finance; Environmental Protection; extreme label “radical” aimed at climate agenda · Source
Examples by category
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X
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personal attacksSource
Press releases
Daines on Fox Business: “Democrats Are Mad They Lost the 2024 Election and Are Taking It Out on the American People” U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox Business to discuss the “No Kings” rally, the trade war with China and what it means for American famers, and President Trump’s historic peace deal in Gaza. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on the “No Kings Rally”: We’ve known about that fo…
personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · Agriculture and Food · Foreign Trade and International Finance · International Affairs · Armed Forces and National Security · extreme label “far left” aimed at progressive groups · target: DemocratsSource
Posts on X
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personal attacks · policy criticism · policy discussion · Government Operations and Politics · target: Chuck SchumerSource
Press releases
Daines on Fox Business: President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Approach is Working Abroad U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox Business to discuss President Trump’s leadership in the ongoing conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on how President Trump’s peace deal will help end the war between Israel and Hamas: Daines: I just returned from a swing from the Middl…
personal attacks · policy discussion · credit claiming · International Affairs · Armed Forces and National Security · target: Greta ThunbergSource
Press releases
Daines on Fox Business: There will be No Peace Until Hamas is Eradicated Reacts to Israel’s Latest Air Strikes Against Hamas Terrorists U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox Business to discuss Israel’s attack on senior Hamas leadership. Daines also discussed the need to eradicate Hamas in order to finally bring peace to the Middle East. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on Israel’s attack on…
personal attacks · policy discussion · Armed Forces and National Security · International Affairs · extreme label “radical” aimed at Zohran Mamdani · target: Zohran MamdaniSource
All 2,049 statements
Newest first, the 119th Congress
The full feed
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 1,581 posts on X, 395 press releases, 58 Congressional Record speeches, 15 newsletters.
Policy
Armed Forces and National Security is what Daines talks about most: 18% of policy statements, below the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.69 on a 0–1 scale (Senate Republicans average 0.64; 11th of 52).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Daines talks about. The bills Daines sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
What Daines talks about
Share of policy statements by area, the 119th Congress
0%35%
Daines
Peers
Armed Forces and National Security251 statements
18%
25%
International Affairs249 statements
18%
11%
Energy211 statements
16%
10%
Public Lands and Natural Resources194 statements
14%
4%
Economics and Public Finance170 statements
13%
17%
Show the data
| Row | Daines | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Armed Forces and National Security | 18% | 25% |
| International Affairs | 18% | 11% |
| Energy | 16% | 10% |
| Public Lands and Natural Resources | 14% | 4% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 13% | 17% |
How to read the bars
The thick bar is the share of Daines’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Talks about · legislates on
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the Senate Republicans averages.
Show the data
| Area | Talks about | Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armed Forces and National Security | 18% | 25% | 5% | 8% |
| International Affairs | 18% | 11% | 5% | 8% |
| Energy | 16% | 10% | 5% | 2% |
| Public Lands and Natural Resources | 14% | 4% | 10% | 4% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 13% | 17% | 0% | 1% |
0.69
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
Senate Republicans average 0.64. Ranks 11th of 52.
What agreement means, and what it doesn’t
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Daines legislates on exactly the areas Daines talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Daines sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology
Daines sits at +1.02 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 64% of Senate Republicans. Approximate range +1.01 to +1.03, which understates the uncertainty; from 22,947 donors and 4,246 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”.
+1.02
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +1.01 to +1.03. From 22,947 donors and 4,246 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Daines, 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 Daines’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 Daines sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
Senate Republicans51 · median +1.0
All Senate98 · median +0.4
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Daines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate Republicans | 51 | +1.0 | 63% |
| All Senate | 98 | +0.4 | 81% |
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 Daines 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 Daines.
Money
Daines raised $4.8M in the 2026 cycle, above the Senate Republicans’ median of $3.2M. 15% of individual money came in gifts of $200 or less. 23% of itemized individual money came from Montana.
Campaign money from Federal Election Commission 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.
$4.8M
raised in the 2026 cycle
From 888 itemized donors. Senate Republicans’ median $3.2M.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of 2026-cycle receipts, from FEC summary totals.
- Itemized individual (over $200)25 squares$1.2M
- Unitemized individual (gifts of $200 or less)4 squares$204.2K
- PACs and other committees28 squares$1.4M
- Party committees1 squares$62.0K
- Remainder not broken out in the FEC summary (transfers, loans, refunds)42 squares$2.0M
Show the data
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Itemized individual (over $200) | $1.2M | 24.5% |
| Unitemized individual (gifts of $200 or less) | $204.2K | 4.3% |
| PACs and other committees | $1.4M | 28.3% |
| Party committees | $62.0K | 1.3% |
| Remainder not broken out in the FEC summary (transfers, loans, refunds) | $2.0M | 41.6% |
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. The small-donor share understates small giving when a campaign itemizes gifts made through ActBlue or WinRed.
Receipts by cycle
Total receipts, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $31.9M |
| 2022 cycle | $1.9M |
| 2024 cycle | $1.7M |
| 2026 cycle | $4.8M |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 23% came from Montana.
- Montana$170.7K
- Florida$78.9K
- Colorado$68.3K
- California$63.4K
- New York$54.2K
Small donations
Gifts of $200 or less as a share of individual money, by cycle. The thin grey bar is the 2026 Senate Republicans’ median.
0%60%
Daines
Median
2026
15%
17%
2024
22%
17%
2022
31%
17%
2020
44%
17%
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| Row | Daines | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 cycle | 15% | 17% |
| 2024 cycle | 22% | 17% |
| 2022 cycle | 31% | 17% |
| 2020 cycle | 44% | 17% |
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Montana | $170.7K |
| Florida | $78.9K |
| Colorado | $68.3K |
| California | $63.4K |
| New York | $54.2K |
| Illinois | $51.9K |
| Arizona | $45.5K |
| Nevada | $42.7K |
| Virginia | $41.7K |
| New Jersey | $24.0K |
| District of Columbia | $20.6K |
| Michigan | $19.8K |
| Texas | $16.6K |
| Oklahoma | $9,881 |
| Pennsylvania | $9,373 |
| South Dakota | $9,365 |
| North Carolina | $7,531 |
| Maryland | $7,250 |
| Alabama | $5,252 |
| Louisiana | $4,658 |
| Kentucky | $2,400 |
| Indiana | $2,291 |
| North Dakota | $2,100 |
| Georgia | $1,757 |
| Utah | $1,670 |
| Kansas | $1,632 |
| Ohio | $1,378 |
| New Hampshire | $1,325 |
| Mississippi | $1,205 |
| Rhode Island | $1,000 |
| South Carolina | $881 |
| West Virginia | $800 |
| Nebraska | $500 |
| Iowa | $300 |
| Maine | $200 |
| New Mexico | $147 |
| Alaska | $87 |
| Vermont | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
888
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
23%
from Montana
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 Montana. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Donors’ ideology
Distribution of itemized donors’ own CSIP scores
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CSIP −1.00 to −0.75 | 0.1% |
| CSIP −0.75 to −0.50 | 0.8% |
| CSIP −0.50 to −0.25 | 3.4% |
| CSIP −0.25 to 0.00 | 9.3% |
| CSIP 0.00 to +0.25 | 6.6% |
| CSIP +0.25 to +0.50 | 11% |
| CSIP +0.50 to +0.75 | 13% |
| CSIP +0.75 to +1.00 | 31% |
| CSIP +1.00 to +1.25 | 23% |
| CSIP +1.25 to +1.50 | 1.7% |
| CSIP +1.50 to +1.75 | 0.1% |
How to read the columns
Donors who give to many candidates get their own CSIP score. Each column is the share of Daines’s itemized money from donors in that part of the scale, blue left of 0 and red right of 0, deeper further out; Daines’s own score is +1.02.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- RETIRED$333.6K 408 donors
- BANKER$57.0K 5 donors
- HOMEMAKER$48.8K 10 donors
- CEO$48.0K 17 donors
- INVESTOR$44.3K 8 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- CONOCOPHILLIPS SPIRIT PAC$15.0K
- TOGETHER HOLDING OUR MAJORITY PAC$15.0K
- FREEDOM FUND$10.0K
- S CORPORATION ASSOCIATION PAC (S-CORP PAC)$10.0K
- THE HAWKEYE PAC$10.0K
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- YELLOWSTONE BANK$70.0K 5 donors
- TOWN PUMP INC$17.5K 5 donors
- NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL$16.1K 7 donors
- ENTREPRENEUR$7,850 4 donors
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Daines voted with the majority of Senate Republicans on 99.8% of party-line votes and missed 2.8% of 915 roll calls. Senate Republicans on average: 98.4% party unity, 97.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Daines voted against the majority of Senate Republicans 3 times.
915 roll calls Daines could vote on in the 119th Congress, compared with Senate Republicans. 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 Daines voted with the majority of Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
3
votes against the majority of Senate Republicans
Party unity 99.8%, Senate Republicans average 98.4%, ranks 13th of 53. 915 roll calls in the 119th Congress.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Daines, the thin grey bar the Senate Republicans average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
80%100%
Daines
Peers
Rank
Attendance
97.1%
97.1%
33rd of 53
Party unity
99.8%
98.4%
13th of 53
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| Row | Daines | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 97.1% | 97.1% |
| Party unity | 99.8% | 98.4% |
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 119th Congress
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | S. 4668 A bill to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to promote fair competition among intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes. On Passage of the Bill | Yea | With majority | Bill Passed | D 26–19 · R 50–2 · I 1–1Democrats 26 yea, 19 nay; Republicans 50 yea, 2 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 nay | party crossover |
| Sep 24, 2026 | H.Con.Res. 89 A concurrent resolution directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran. On the Concurrent Resolution | Nay | With majority | Concurrent Resolution Rejected | D 43–1 · R 4–49 · I 2–0Democrats 43 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 4 yea, 49 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nay | close vote |
| Aug 8, 2026 | H.R. 6500 An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes. On Passage of the Bill | Yea | With majority | Bill Passed | D 42–3 · R 47–2 · I 1–1Democrats 42 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 47 yea, 2 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 nay | became law |
| Aug 7, 2026 | H.R. 5334 An act to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation, as championed by the late Senator Lindsey O. Graham, and for other purposes. On Passage of the Bill | Yea | With majority | Bill Passed | D 36–9 · R 49–1 · I 1–1Democrats 36 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 1 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 nay | became law · party crossover |
| Jul 30, 2026 | S.Res. 817 An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar. On the Resolution | Yea | With majority | Resolution Agreed to | D 0–45 · R 50–0 · I 0–2Democrats 0 yea, 45 nay; Republicans 50 yea, 0 nay; Independents 0 yea, 2 nay | close vote |
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 Daines most often
- James RischR864 shared votes100%
- Tim SheehyR871 shared votes100%
- Jim JusticeR850 shared votes100%
- Mike CrapoR878 shared votes100%
- Bernie MorenoR884 shared votes99%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Daines least often
- Ed MarkeyD883 shared votes3.2%
- Bernie SandersI832 shared votes3.3%
- Elizabeth WarrenD875 shared votes3.4%
- Christopher MurphyD865 shared votes3.9%
- Chris Van HollenD875 shared votes4.7%
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
119th Congress (2025–27), loads in batches
Legislation
Daines sponsored 66 bills in the 119th Congress; 2 became law. Cosponsored 354 others. 32% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Senate Republicans average 22%; 11th of 51).
The bills Daines sponsored and cosponsored in the 119th Congress, 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 119th Congress
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 66 | 66 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
| Cosponsored | 354 | 346 | 72 | 7 | 7 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Daines sponsored, ochre blocks bills Daines cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
32%
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Senate Republicans average 22%. Ranks 11th of 51.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Daines, by number of shared bills in the 119th Congress; the square shows their party.
- Tim Sheehy104
- James Risch94
- Marsha Blackburn91
- Mike Crapo84
- Kevin Cramer80
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 Daines’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| S. 5616 | ADAPT Act | Sponsor | Sep 30, 2026 | In committee | Taxation | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Sep 30, 2026 |
| S.Res. 934 | A resolution designating October 10, 2026, as "American Girls in Sports Day". | Cosponsor | Sep 30, 2026 | In committee | Unassigned | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S5267) Sep 30, 2026 |
| S.Res. 912 | A resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment and its enduring legacy of saving the lives of more than 2,600,000 unborn children and respecting the conscience rights of the American people. | Cosponsor | Sep 28, 2026 | In committee | Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (consideration: CR S5074) Sep 28, 2026 |
| S.Res. 913 | A resolution relating to the death of the Honorable Nancy Kassebaum, former United States Senator for the State of Kansas. | Cosponsor | Sep 28, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Government Operations and Politics | Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5064-5065; text: CR S5074-5075) Sep 28, 2026 |
| S. 5552 | Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act | Cosponsor | Sep 24, 2026 | In committee | Taxation | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Sep 24, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 71 times in 90 days. Daines’s official site had 34 pages when last crawled on Oct 18, 2026. The lab last catalogued the images Daines posted on Oct 26, 2026.
The lab crawls Daines’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 Daines posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 34
pages crawled
71changes in 90 days
- 3
pages crawled
4changes in 90 days
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.
Social accounts
- XSteveDaines
- FacebookSteveDainesMT
- Instagramstevedaines
- YouTubeSteveDainesMT
- Emailnoreply@daines.senate.gov
Images Daines posted
The latest 24, with model-written descriptions
Four people pose together outdoors in front of a very large American flag hanging from a building or structure. Part of a small aircraft and hangar buildings are visible in the background. No readable text is visible.View post 
Two men stand on a cobblestone path beside a railway track, looking down at a large plaque in the foreground. Fences and utility poles line the landscape beneath an overcast sky. The plaque contains text.View post 
Two men look at rows of black-and-white portraits displayed on the walls of a bright gallery or memorial exhibit. Small text appears beneath the portraits.View post 
Two men stand beside a large rough stone wall, looking toward it. Flowers, candles, and other memorial offerings are arranged at the base of the wall. A brick building with a dark plaque is in the background; the plaque contains text.View post 
Two men in business attire pose on an airport tarmac in front of a large government aircraft. Other people and vehicles are visible behind them beneath a clear blue sky. There is text on the aircraft.View post
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.
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 Daines is most unusual among Senate Republicans, 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
- D000618
- Bioguide
- D000618
- FEC candidate ids
- H2MT01060, S2MT00096
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 (Congress)Sep 30, 202628 days agoVoteview roll calls, 113th Congress (2013) on.
- Bills (Congress)Oct 22, 20266 days agoGovInfo BILLSTATUS: sponsors, cosponsors, actions, CRS policy area.
- Campaign money (FEC)Oct 22, 20266 days agoFEC committee financial summaries (totals, small donations) and itemized contributions (donor counts, states, employers), cycles 2020-2026; 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.
- ImagesOct 27, 20261 days agoImages in members' tweets with vision-model descriptions.
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.
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