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Republican · Michigan Senate, district 34

Serving since Jan 1, 2023MI 2025–26 session

Portrait of Roger Hauck, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
100%
of itemized money from Michigan donors, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans

100% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Michigan. Ranks 136th of 860, where 1st is the highest share. 57 itemized donors.

Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Michigan, ranked among State Senate Republicans. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.

At a glance

6 measures against State Senate Republicans. Hauck voted against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans 21 times; party unity 93.7%, in the bottom half of the Michigan Senate (average 92.6%). 53% of the 19 bills Hauck sponsored got out of committee, in the top half of the Michigan Senate.

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

From Michigan, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 136th of 860 State Senate Republicans

Party unity

93.7%

Michigan Senate average 92.6% · ranks 27th of 37 · 21 votes against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans

Out of committee

53%

Michigan Senate average 38% · ranks 11th of 38

CSIP ideology

+0.50

More conservative than 70% of State Senate Republicans · ± 0.03

Attendance

98.8%

Michigan Senate average 95.5% · ranks 15th of 37 · 523 roll calls

Itemized, 2026

$60.2K

State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 418th of 936

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

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Hauck says

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

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Hauck sits at +0.50 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 70% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.46 to +0.53, which understates the uncertainty; from 264 donors and 1,189 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”.

+0.50

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.46 to +0.53. From 264 donors and 1,189 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Hauck +0.5State Senate Republicans +0.4Michigan Senate −0.4All State Senate +0.1

The outlined dot is Hauck, 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 Hauck’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 Hauck sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State Senate Republicansmedian +0.4Hauck +0.5Michigan Senatemedian −0.4All State Senatemedian +0.1
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Hauck's CSIP score of +0.50 placed against State Senate Republicans, Michigan Senate, All State Senate.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Hauck
State Senate Republicans1083+0.470%
Michigan Senate38−0.476%
All State Senate1909+0.183%
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 Hauck 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 Hauck.

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Money

Hauck reported $60.2K in the 2026 cycle, above the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Michigan.

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
$60.2K

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 57 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)37 squares$22.5K
  • PACs and other committees63 squares$37.6K
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Sources of Hauck's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$22.5K37.5%
PACs and other committees$37.6K62.5%
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 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $121.7K$121.7K20202022 cycle: $185.3K$185.3K20222024 cycle: $56.8K$56.8K20242026 cycle: $60.2K$60.2K2026State Senate Republicans median $46.2K
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Hauck's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State Senate Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$121.7K
2022 cycle$185.3K
2024 cycle$56.8K
2026 cycle$60.2K

Top donor states, 2026

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

  1. Michigan$22.5K

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: $22.5KMINew York: no dataNYRhode 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: no dataCTCalifornia: 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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Hauck's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Michigan$22.5K
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
New YorkNo 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
ConnecticutNo 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
57

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Michigan

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 Michigan. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. OWNER$5,716 8 donors
  2. RETIRED$5,184 21 donors
  3. PRESIDENT$1,854 3 donors
  4. CPA$406 3 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$3,600
  2. MICHIGAN BEER AND WINE WHOLESALERS STATE PAC$3,500
  3. BUSINESS LEADERS FOR MICHIGAN PAC$3,000
  4. FAMILY BUSINESS OWNERS OF MICHIGAN PAC$3,000
  5. CMS ENERGY CORP EMPLOYEES FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT$2,250

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. BOGE, WYBENGA BRADLEY$406 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Hauck voted with the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans on 93.7% of party-line votes and missed 1.1% of 523 roll calls. Michigan Senate on average: 92.6% party unity, 95.5% attendance. Across all roll calls, Hauck voted against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans 21 times.

523 roll calls Hauck could vote on in the MI 2025–26 session, compared with Michigan Senate. 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 Hauck voted with the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

21

votes against the majority of Michigan Senate Republicans

Party unity 93.7%, Michigan Senate average 92.6%, ranks 27th of 37. 523 roll calls in the MI 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

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

80%100%
Hauck
Peers
Rank
Attendance
98.8%
95.5%
15th of 37
Party unity
93.7%
92.6%
27th of 37
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Hauck's attendance and party unity against Michigan Senate.
RowHauckPeers
Attendance98.8%95.5%
Party unity93.7%92.6%
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 MI 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Oct 14, 2026
HB 5356
Vehicles: title; requirements for transfer of title by a dealer; provide for. Amends 14, 41a, 78, 217, 217c, 233, 233a, 233b, 234, 238, 239, 240, 248, 248a, 248j, 249, 250, 258, 801b, 806 & 810a of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.14 et seq.) & adds sec. 9b.
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 263 YEAS 31 NAYS 3 EXCUSED 4 NOT VOTING 0
YeaWith majoritypassD 18–1 · R 13–2Democrats 18 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 2 nayparty crossover
Oct 1, 2026
SB 947
Natural resources: inland lakes; dam safety regulations; provide for. Amends and adds (See bill). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5485'26
ROLL CALL: ROLL CALL # 260 YEAS 34 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–0 · R 14–2Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 14 yea, 2 nayparty crossover
Oct 1, 2026
HB 5485
Natural resources: inland lakes; dam safety regulations; provide for. Amends secs. 31502, 31503, 31504, 31505, 31506, 31507, 31508, 31509, 31510, 31511, 31513, 31515, 31516, 31517, 31518, 31520, 31521 & 31523 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.31502 et seq.) & adds secs. 31506a, 31509a, 31509b, 31517a, 31518a,
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 247 YEAS 34 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–0 · R 14–2Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 14 yea, 2 nayparty crossover
Oct 1, 2026
HB 4598
Crimes: organized; gift card fraud; provide for. Amends sec. 4 of 2012 PA 455 (MCL 752.1084).
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 253 YEAS 36 NAYS 0 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–0 · R 16–0Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 16 yea, 0 naybecame law
Oct 1, 2026
SB 791
Highways: memorial; portion of I-475; designate as the "St. John Street Community Memorial Highway". Amends 2001 PA 142 (MCL 250.1001 - 250.2092) by adding sec. 124.
PASSED ROLL CALL # 258 YEAS 33 NAYS 3 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–0 · R 13–3Democrats 20 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 3 nayparty crossover
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 Hauck most often

  1. Pat OutmanR464 shared votes94%
  2. Dan LauwersR434 shared votes92%
  3. Kevin DaleyR480 shared votes91%
  4. Ruth JohnsonR387 shared votes91%
  5. Lana TheisR496 shared votes91%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Hauck least often

  1. Erika GeissD458 shared votes57%
  2. Chedrick GreeneD139 shared votes58%
  3. Jeff IrwinD515 shared votes59%
  4. Sylvia SantanaD440 shared votes60%
  5. Mary CavanaghD488 shared votes60%
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

MI 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

Hauck sponsored 19 bills in the MI 2025–26 session; 2 became law. Cosponsored 67 others. 53% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Michigan Senate average 38%; 11th of 38).

The bills Hauck sponsored and cosponsored in the MI 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 MI 2025–26 session

Sponsored19 billsSponsored, Introduced: 1919Sponsored, In committee: 1919Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 1010Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 22Sponsored, Became law: 22Cosponsored67 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 6767Cosponsored, In committee: 6666Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 2525Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 99Cosponsored, Became law: 33IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Hauck sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored19191022
Cosponsored67662593
How to read the blocks

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

53%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Michigan Senate average 38%. Ranks 11th of 38.

Cosponsorship partners

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

  1. Joe Bellino52
  2. Lana Theis37
  3. John Damoose32
  4. Michael Webber32
  5. Michele Hoitenga31
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 Hauck’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
SCR 16A concurrent resolution of tribute offered as a memorial for John Pappageorge, former member of the Michigan Senate and Michigan House of Representatives.CosponsorOct 14, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NAMED CO-SPONSORS Oct 14, 2026
SR 146A resolution of tribute offered as a memorial for John Joseph Henry Schwarz, M.D., former member of the Michigan Senate.CosponsorOct 14, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NAMED CO-SPONSORS Oct 14, 2026
SR 136A resolution to designate September 2026 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.CosponsorSep 9, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedADOPTED Sep 9, 2026
SJR KState management: other; use of autopen to sign bills, executive orders, or clemency documents; prohibit. Amends sec. 14, art. V & adds sec. 31 to art. V of the state constitution.CosponsorJul 1, 2026In committeeGovernment Operations and Politics(model)REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS Jul 1, 2026
SB 1083Taxation: administration; calculation of interest and penalties related to the issuance of certain refunds; provide for. Amends sec. 30 of 1941 PA 122 (MCL 205.30).CosponsorJul 1, 2026In committeeTaxation(model)REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Jul 1, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that changed 7 times in 90 days. Hauck’s official site had 39 pages when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Hauck’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 Hauck 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 Hauck posted

No images from Hauck’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

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

Floor speeches

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

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 Hauck is most unusual among State 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

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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.

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