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Republican · U.S. Senate, South Carolina

Serving since Jul 14, 2026119th Congress (2025–27)next election Nov 3, 2026

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Portrait of Darline Graham Nordone, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
4
statements classified

4 Congressional Record speeches in the 119th Congress. Too little data in the 119th Congress to compare with peers.

Every post, press release, newsletter and floor speech the lab collected and ran through its classifier.

At a glance

What the record holds for Nordone. Nordone has 4 classified statements in the 119th Congress.

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

Statements

4

4 Congressional Record speeches

Roll calls

62

Compared with Senate Republicans

Bills sponsored

3

and 66 cosponsored

In office since

2026

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What Nordone says

Nordone criticizes policies less than any other Senate Republican. Policy criticism in 0% of 4 statements, against 17% for the average Senate Republican; 53rd of 53.

An AI model reads each of Nordone’s 4 statements in the 119th Congress (4 Congressional Record speeches) 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%
Nordone
Peers
Rank
Policy discussion2 statements
50%
70%
51st of 53
Bipartisanship1 statements
25%
13%
4th of 53
Credit claiming1 statements
25%
36%
45th of 53
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
2%
52nd of 53
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
17%
53rd of 53
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Nordone's share of statements in each category against the Senate Republicans average.
RowNordonePeers
Policy discussion50%70%
Bipartisanship25%13%
Credit claiming25%36%
Personal attacks0%2%
Policy criticism0%17%
4

statements classified

4 Congressional Record speeches.

Congressional Record speeches: 4 (100.0%)Congressional Record speeches 4
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Nordone's statements by source
PartValue
Congressional Record speeches4
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Nordone; the thin grey bar is the average Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Nordone does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Nordone used no extreme labels in 4 statements. The peer average is 2.9%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

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

No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.

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%. 4 months are hatched here; 3 of them have no statements.

In Nordone’s words

Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned

Policy discussion

Mr. President, today the Senate voice voted the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 320, HR 6500, the legislative vehicle for a continuing resolution. Had this been a recorded rollcall vote, I would have voted ``present'' and ask that the Record reflect that accordingly.

Aug 5, 2026 · Congressional Record · policy discussion; Economics and Public Finance · Source

Bipartisanship

Mr. President, I rise today, and I am honored to reiterate my full support for the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. My late brother Lindsey was a foreign policy and national security expert. He was also a peacemaker who was determined to bring an end to the conflict in Ukrai…

Aug 7, 2026 · Congressional Record · policy discussion; bipartisanship; credit claiming; International Affairs; Armed Forces and National Security; Energy; Foreign Trade and International Finance · Source

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

No statements in this category in this window.

All 4 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: 4 Congressional Record speeches.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

Armed Forces and National Security is what Nordone talks about most: 50% of policy statements, 2.0 times the peer share. Peers give it 25%. Agreement with legislation needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

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 Nordone talks about. The bills Nordone sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.

What Nordone talks about

Share of policy statements by area, the 119th Congress

0%55%
Nordone
Peers
Armed Forces and National Security1 statements
50%
25%
Economics and Public Finance1 statements
50%
17%
Energy1 statements
50%
10%
Foreign Trade and International Finance1 statements
50%
4%
International Affairs1 statements
50%
11%
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Policy areas Nordone talks about, as a share of policy statements, against the Senate Republicans average.
RowNordonePeers
Armed Forces and National Security50%25%
Economics and Public Finance50%17%
Energy50%10%
Foreign Trade and International Finance50%4%
International Affairs50%11%
How to read the bars

The thick bar is the share of Nordone’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 55%. Grey ticks are the Senate Republicans averages.

Talks aboutLegislates onArmed Forces and NationalSecurityArmed Forces and National Security, talks about: 50% (Senate Republicans 25%)50%Armed Forces and National Security, legislates on: 11% (Senate Republicans 8%)11%Economics and Public FinanceEconomics and Public Finance, talks about: 50% (Senate Republicans 17%)50%Economics and Public Finance, legislates on: 0% (Senate Republicans 1%)0%EnergyEnergy, talks about: 50% (Senate Republicans 10%)50%Energy, legislates on: 1% (Senate Republicans 2%)1%Foreign Trade andInternational FinanceForeign Trade and International Finance, talks about: 50% (Senate Republicans 4%)50%Foreign Trade and International Finance, legislates on: 0% (Senate Republicans 2%)0%International AffairsInternational Affairs, talks about: 50% (Senate Republicans 11%)50%International Affairs, legislates on: 11% (Senate Republicans 8%)11%
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Nordone's share of statements against share of bills in each policy area.
AreaTalks aboutSenate Republicans, talks aboutLegislates onSenate Republicans, legislates on
Armed Forces and National Security50%25%11%8%
Economics and Public Finance50%17%0%1%
Energy50%10%1%2%
Foreign Trade and International Finance50%4%0%2%
International Affairs50%11%11%8%

No agreement score.Needs at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills in the window.

What agreement means, and what it doesn’t

Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Nordone legislates on exactly the areas Nordone 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 Nordone sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Not placed on the scale.

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”.

No CSIP score.No CSIP score: this official is not matched to a recipient in the current CSIP run (too few roll calls and donors to place them on the scale).

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.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

No campaign-finance data.No campaign-finance records are matched to this official.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Nordone voted with the majority of Senate Republicans on 97.7% of party-line votes and missed 8.1% of 62 roll calls. Senate Republicans on average: 98.4% party unity, 97.1% attendance. Across all roll calls, Nordone voted against the majority of Senate Republicans 1 time.

62 roll calls Nordone 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 Nordone voted with the majority of Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

1

votes against the majority of Senate Republicans

Party unity 97.7%, Senate Republicans average 98.4%, ranks 45th of 53. 62 roll calls in the 119th Congress.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Nordone, the thin grey bar the Senate Republicans average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Nordone
Peers
Rank
Attendance
91.9%
97.1%
51st of 53
Party unity
97.7%
98.4%
45th of 53
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Nordone's attendance and party unity against Senate Republicans.
RowNordonePeers
Attendance91.9%97.1%
Party unity97.7%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

5 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the 119th Congress

Key votes
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
YeaWith majorityBill PassedD 26–19 · R 50–2 · I 1–1Democrats 26 yea, 19 nay; Republicans 50 yea, 2 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 nayparty 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
NayWith majorityConcurrent Resolution RejectedD 43–1 · R 4–49 · I 2–0Democrats 43 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 4 yea, 49 nay; Independents 2 yea, 0 nayclose 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
Present—Bill PassedD 42–3 · R 47–2 · I 1–1Democrats 42 yea, 3 nay; Republicans 47 yea, 2 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 naybecame 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
YeaWith majorityBill PassedD 36–9 · R 49–1 · I 1–1Democrats 36 yea, 9 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 1 nay; Independents 1 yea, 1 naybecame 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
YeaWith majorityResolution Agreed toD 0–45 · R 50–0 · I 0–2Democrats 0 yea, 45 nay; Republicans 50 yea, 0 nay; Independents 0 yea, 2 nayclose 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 Nordone most often

  1. Kevin CramerR52 shared votes100%
  2. Cindy Hyde-SmithR54 shared votes100%
  3. Jon HustedR55 shared votes100%
  4. Mike LeeR53 shared votes100%
  5. Roger WickerR54 shared votes100%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Nordone least often

  1. Lisa Blunt RochesterD55 shared votes5.5%
  2. Elizabeth WarrenD55 shared votes7.3%
  3. Adam SchiffD55 shared votes7.3%
  4. Ed MarkeyD55 shared votes7.3%
  5. Cory BookerD55 shared votes7.3%
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

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Nordone sponsored 3 bills in the 119th Congress; none became law. Cosponsored 66 others.

The bills Nordone 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

Sponsored3 billsSponsored, Introduced: 33Sponsored, In committee: 33Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored66 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 6666Cosponsored, In committee: 6060Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 22Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Nordone sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored33000
Cosponsored6660200
How to read the blocks

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

No effectiveness score.Too few sponsored bills to score (at least 5 are needed).

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Nordone, by number of shared bills in the 119th Congress; the square shows their party.

  1. Lindsey O. Graham31
  2. Marsha Blackburn25
  3. Ted Budd22
  4. John Cornyn21
  5. Jim Justice16
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 Nordone’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
S. 5655A bill to express the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should name an appropriate United States Navy ship in honor of the Battle of Cowpens, which took place on January 17, 1781, and for other purposes.SponsorSep 30, 2026In committeeArmed Forces and National SecurityRead twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Sep 30, 2026
S.Res. 934A resolution designating October 10, 2026, as "American Girls in Sports Day".CosponsorSep 30, 2026In committeeUnassignedReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S5267) Sep 30, 2026
S.Res. 912A 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.CosponsorSep 28, 2026In committeeCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesReferred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (consideration: CR S5074) Sep 28, 2026
S.Res. 913A resolution relating to the death of the Honorable Nancy Kassebaum, former United States Senator for the State of Kansas.CosponsorSep 28, 2026Passed one chamberGovernment Operations and PoliticsSubmitted 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.Res. 891A resolution designating the week of September 27, 2026, through October 3, 2026, as "Religious Education Week" to celebrate religious education in the United States.SponsorSep 23, 2026In committeeEducationReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S4949-4950) Sep 23, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 65 times in 90 days. Nordone’s official site had 34 pages when last crawled on Oct 18, 2026.

The lab crawls Nordone’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 Nordone 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.

Social accounts

No social accounts on file.

Images Nordone posted

No images from Nordone’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.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

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 Nordone is most unusual among peers, 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. That is the case for Nordone in this window. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
G000608
Bioguide
G000608

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 28, 2026todayImages 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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