A past Congress. The 113th Congress met from Jan. 3, 2013 to Jan. 3, 2015. Members are shown with the seat and party they held then; today's contact details, committees and caucuses aren't part of it.
113th Congress: sources and checks
This Congress's data was saved on Oct. 30, 2026 and doesn't change after that. Scores are computed from it the same way as the current Congress's (see “How we measure”). How we measure →
Voteview re-estimates DW-NOMINATE, the liberal-to-conservative scale, as new Congresses are added; the figures here are from the release downloaded on Oct. 30, 2026.
Checked against the official records
- House: 1,202 of 1,202 roll calls compared with the House Clerk's record of each one, member by member. All match. 1 of them elected the Speaker; those are compared by who voted, since the votes are names.
- Senate: 271 of 657 roll calls compared with the tallies Congress.gov's bill records print. All match. The Senate's own records couldn't be read automatically, and Congress.gov's bill records don't cover votes on nominations, so the other 386 weren't checked this way.
Votes with the President
Each member's score is the share of their votes that matched the President's public position, counted separately for each President, with missed votes left out. The positions follow the same rule as the current Congress's, set out on the main methodology page. Software matched the White House statements to votes, and every match was checked, with AI assistance (Claude) and no human editor, against the statement's text, the vote record and news coverage. How we measure →
President Obama: 364 votes (190 nominations, 0 veto overrides, 167 White House statements on the bill, 7 other public statements). President's positions →
50 entries took a judgment call: a position applied to a procedural vote, a statement made more than 60 days before the vote, or a position added in the fact-check without a statement naming that exact vote. They're flagged on the positions page for sign-off by a named PCG editor, and they still count.
Voteview, the source of these roll calls, records the President's position on 413 of them. Of those, 348 agree with this site's list, 0 disagree and 65 have no position here.
Compared with CQ
CQ Roll Call publishes each year's average presidential support by party. The same average, computed here CQ's way (counting a member's missed votes against them), is shown beside it; the site's own scores leave missed votes out.
| Year | Chamber | Party | CQ | This site, CQ's way | Difference | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | House | Democrats | 81% | 82.8% | +1.8 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2013 | House | Republicans | 12% | 11.6% | -0.4 | Roll Call, Feb. 3, 2014 (David Hawkings) |
| 2013 | Senate | Democrats | 98% | 95.2% | -2.8 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2013 | Senate | Republicans | 40% | 44.6% | +4.6 | Roll Call, Feb. 3, 2014 (Meredith Shiner) |
| 2014 | House | Democrats | 84% | 82.5% | -1.5 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2014 | House | Republicans | 12% | 14.1% | +2.1 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2014 | Senate | Democrats | 98% | 94.9% | -3.1 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2014 | Senate | Republicans | 55% | 55.2% | +0.2 | Roll Call, March 16, 2015 (David Hawkings) |
Brookings's figures appear to leave missed votes out: counted that way here, Senate Democrats are 98.3 in 2013 and 98.0 in 2014. The largest gap is 2013 Senate Republicans, 44.6 here vs. Roll Call's 40: CQ counted 108 Senate position votes that year and this site has 90; which votes differ isn't known. CQ counted 86 House position votes in 2013, 66 in 2014 and 145 in the Senate in 2014; this site has 72, 56 and 146.
Party loyalty for 2013–2014 isn't compared with CQ's party-unity averages; it's computed from Voteview's records the same way as the current Congress's.
Sources
Not part of this Congress's pages
Committees, member caucuses, contact details and district maps are today's, so they aren't shown here. Neither are presidential election results by district, so a member's score isn't compared with what their district's vote would predict.