Legislators 119th Congress

What the 555 members of the 119th Congress put their names to: the bills they introduced, the bills they signed onto, and how often they signed one from the other side.

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28% of bills come from a tenth of members

The 56 busiest members introduced 5,612 of the 19,841 bills sponsored this Congress. 99.1% of members put their name to at least one, so the work is widely shared but very unevenly divided.

Bills per member by Congress 107th to 119th
Members served
555

Everyone holding a seat at any point

Sponsored a bill
99.1%

Members introducing at least one

Bills each
35.7

Introduced per member, on average

Cosponsorships each
333

Added to others' bills, on average

Every member

All 555 who served. Each ranking shows its leading 25.

Most bills introduced first.

Member Party State Chamber Sponsored Became law Cosponsored Cross-party Against the busiest
Rick Scott R FL Senate 191 0 404 16.3%
Edward Markey D MA Senate 164 0 500 10.6%
Marsha Blackburn R TN Senate 145 2 502 19.7%
John Cornyn R TX Senate 139 3 324 24.7%
Richard Durbin D IL Senate 139 0 507 22.3%
Mike Lee R UT Senate 139 0 236 10.6%
Jeff Merkley D OR Senate 138 0 717 16.2%
Ted Cruz R TX Senate 133 4 279 14.7%
Richard Blumenthal D CT Senate 132 0 834 21.8%
Cory Booker D NJ Senate 131 0 756 19.7%
Michael Lawler R NY House 130 0 1,125 43.8%
Catherine Cortez Masto D NV Senate 123 0 415 47.5%
Bill Cassidy R LA Senate 122 1 344 28.8%
W. Steube R FL House 116 1 327 4.3%
Eleanor Norton D DC House 114 0 2,016 10.8%
Alex Padilla D CA Senate 114 0 697 20.5%
Nancy Mace R SC House 112 0 211 9.5%
Timothy Kaine D VA Senate 111 1 523 28.7%
Andy Biggs R AZ House 110 0 242 2.5%
Jim Banks R IN Senate 107 0 263 15.6%
Josh Gottheimer D NJ House 103 0 978 48.6%
Sheldon Whitehouse D RI Senate 103 0 452 25.0%
Jeanne Shaheen D NH Senate 101 0 540 39.4%
Joni Ernst R IA Senate 100 2 209 23.9%
Adam Schiff D CA Senate 100 0 622 20.7%

Sponsorship counts the member who introduced a bill; cosponsorship counts signatures added to someone else's. Cross-party is the share of a member's cosponsorships given to a bill sponsored by the other major party, judged on the affiliations held in this Congress rather than today's. Members who served only part of the term appear with whatever they did in it.

What they write about

The twelve busiest policy areas of the 119th Congress.

Policy area Bills Became law Rate Against the busiest
Health 2,317 3 0.13%
Armed Forces and National Security 1,583 19 1.20%
Government Operations and Politics 1,475 6 0.41%
International Affairs 1,379 6 0.44%
Taxation 1,334 5 0.37%
Crime and Law Enforcement 1,163 6 0.52%
Agriculture and Food 782 2 0.26%
Transportation and Public Works 777 2 0.26%
Finance and Financial Sector 770 6 0.78%
Education 766 0 0.00%
Immigration 728 2 0.27%
Public Lands and Natural Resources 709 25 3.53%

Policy area is the single subject assigned to a bill when it is catalogued. A small number of bills carry none and are left out.