Did Your Member of Congress Pass a Law of Their Own? Most Did Not.
The Delivery Record asks one question of all 535 voting members of the 119th Congress: did anything this member wrote become law, and did it pass under their own bill number?
A bill passes on its own legs only if it became law under its own number. A bill whose number never became law, but whose text was enacted inside another bill, rode inside that vehicle. Where neither shows the text enacted, nothing is credited.
The record sorts members into Creator, Hunter or Neither on that question alone. No median enters into it. A chamber where most members enact nothing cannot grade itself on a curve.
Nothing on the page is added together and there is no score. This report replaces the composite conduct grade it used to publish — it publishes a record instead of a verdict.
Search by name, state or district. Open any member's card for the nine questions, the evidence on each side, where they stand against their own chamber, and every public law credited to them. The Absence Register lists the duties for which no public record exists at all — which is a finding, not a gap in the collection.
Version 14.4. A correction is carried on the face of the instrument: earlier versions credited 46 members with passing a law under their own number when only a related bill had.
Prepared with the assistance of Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic. The research and the instrument are the author's own.
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