A past Congress. The 116th Congress met from Jan. 3, 2019 to Jan. 3, 2021. Members are shown with the seat and party they held then; today's contact details, committees and caucuses aren't part of it.
116th 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: 952 of 952 roll calls compared with the House Clerk's record of each one, member by member. 43 differ: 116-h71, 116-h265, 116-h266, 116-h283, 116-h284, 116-h288, 116-h326, 116-h328, 116-h333, 116-h334, 116-h337, 116-h339, 116-h357, 116-h358, 116-h364, 116-h368, 116-h371, 116-h374, 116-h387, 116-h388, 116-h399, 116-h400, 116-h401, 116-h404, 116-h410, 116-h414, 116-h461, 116-h538, 116-h564, 116-h565, 116-h580, 116-h592, 116-h593, 116-h594, 116-h597, 116-h598, 116-h599, 116-h604, 116-h605, 116-h617, 116-h619, 116-h708, 116-h709. 1 of them elected the Speaker; those are compared by who voted, since the votes are names.
- Senate: 190 of 720 roll calls compared with the tallies Congress.gov's bill records print. 3 differ: 116-s176, 116-s311, 116-s493. 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 530 weren't checked this way.
On 43 amendment votes in the Committee of the Whole, the Clerk's totals include the six delegates and resident commissioner, who may vote there; Voteview lists voting members only. Every other member's vote matches on all 43.
For 116-s176 the Congressional Record gives yeas 88, nays 11, as Voteview does; Congress.gov's bill record gives 89-10.
For 116-s311 and 116-s493 Congress.gov and the Congressional Record give the tally after a senator changed his vote by consent (81-16 and 81-15); Voteview's, used here, is the count before it (82-15 and 80-16).
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 Trump: 400 votes (254 nominations, 7 veto overrides, 107 White House statements on the bill, 32 other public statements). President's positions →
41 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 392 of them. Of those, 380 agree with this site's list, 0 disagree and 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | House | Democrats | 5% | 10.4% | +5.4 | Roll Call, March 3, 2021 (Shawn Zeller) |
| 2019 | House | Republicans | 89% | 90.2% | +1.2 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2019 | Senate | Democrats | 38% | 34.5% | -3.5 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2019 | Senate | Republicans | 96% | 93.8% | -2.2 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2020 | House | Democrats | 16% | 16.8% | +0.8 | Roll Call, March 3, 2021 (Shawn Zeller) |
| 2020 | House | Republicans | 85% | 79.8% | -5.2 | Brookings, Vital Statistics on Congress, table 8-2 |
| 2020 | Senate | Democrats | 34% | 33.5% | -0.5 | Roll Call, March 3, 2021 (Shawn Zeller) |
| 2020 | Senate | Republicans | 90% | 91.1% | +1.1 | Roll Call, March 3, 2021 (Shawn Zeller) |
2019 House Democrats: three votes explain most of the gap. The White House said Trump would sign the December 2019 spending packages (H.R. 1158, H.R. 1865) and he approved the June 2019 disaster aid (H.R. 2157); this site's rule counts those, and CQ's figure suggests it didn't. Without them the average here is 6.7. Brookings's figures appear to leave missed votes out: counted that way here, 2019 Senate Democrats are 35.7, 2019 Senate Republicans 96.9 and 2020 House Republicans 86.7. CQ counted 40 House position votes in 2020, 190 in the Senate in 2019 (from one senator's record) and 114 in 2020; this site has 39, 188 and 111.
Party loyalty for 2019–2020 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.