Welcome to the PA Indivisible Legislative Scorecard!

 We will score votes in the U.S. Congress that relate to issues of importance to the Indivisible organization. The Indivisible movement is focused on four key principles - equality, justice, compassion and inclusion. Those values are reflected in legislation on:
  • Ballot access, voting rights, campaign finance and ethics
  • Civil rights, equality under the law and addressing systemic inequities
  • Reinforcing and strengthening democratic norms, processes, and oversight
  • Addressing economic inequality
Not all bills are equal, though. After deciding which bills to score, we also assign them a multiplier value of 1, 2, or 3. Bills that are central to the Indivisible movement - like H.R. 1, the For the People Act - are weighted more heavily than simple resolutions, which are often only an expression of sentiments and do not lead to any actual change. Deeds are valued above words.
​Lawmakers with low scores are opposed to Indivisible's goals, and those with high scores are allies!

Current Scores

Lawmaker
Score
🔵 Senator Bob Casey
100%
🔴 Senator Pat Toomey
29.4%
🔴 PA-01’s Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
49.1%
🔵 PA-02’s Rep. Brendan Boyle
​100%
🔵 PA-03’s Rep. Dwight Evans
​100%
🔵 PA-04’s Rep. Madeleine Dean
​​100%
🔵 PA-05’s Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon
​100%
🔵 PA-06’s Rep. Chrissy Houlahan
​​100%
🔵 PA-07’s Rep. Susan Wild
​100%
🔵 PA-08’s Rep. Matt Cartwright
​100%
🔴 PA-09’s Rep. Dan Meuser
3.6%
🔴 PA-10’s Rep. Scott Perry
0%
🔴 PA-11’s Rep. Lloyd Smucker
8.8%
🔴 PA-12’s Rep. Fred Keller
3.5%
🔴 PA-13’s Rep. John Joyce
3.5%
🔴 PA-14’s Rep. Guy Reschenthaler
3.5%
🔴 PA-15’s Rep. Glenn Thompson
9.1%
🔴 PA-16’s Rep. Mike Kelly
3.5%
🔵 PA-17’s Rep. Conor Lamb
​100%
​🔵 PA-18’s Rep. Mike Doyle
​100%
These House scores include the votes these measures from this 117th Congress:
  1. The resolution in the House to advance BOTH the bipartisan and Democrats-only infrastructure packages
  2. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
  3. The creation of a January 6th House Select Committee
  4. The vote on the Inspector Generals Independence and Empowerment Act
  5. The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act
  6. The reversal of a Trump-era rule that allowed lenders to evade state interest laws
  7. The vote to create a January 6th Commission
  8. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
  9. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
  10. The DC Statehood Bill
  11. The bill that would stop future presidents from enacting immigration actions like the Muslim ban
  12. The Access to Counsel Act, which ensure people undergoing immigration actions have legal representation
  13. The Motion to Table the censure resolution against Rep. Maxine Waters
  14. The Paycheck Fairness Act, which addresses gender disparity for equal work
  15. The American Dream and Promise Act, which provides a path to citizenship for Dreamers and TPS recipients
  16. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which provides a path to citizenship for agricultural workers
  17. The PRO Act, a package of worker and organized labor protections 
  18. The final House vote on the American Rescue Plan
  19. The For the People Act, a campaign finance and ethics reform, and voter access package
  20. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
  21. The House Impeachment 2 vote
  22. Stripping Qanon MoC Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments
  23. The initial House vote on the American Rescue Plan COVID Relief package
  24. HR 5 - the Equality Act
Links will take you to our MoCTrack write up of the legislation and vote.
The Senate scores include these votes:
  1. The first vote on the Reconciliation budget package that contains the bulk of President Biden's Build back Better human infrastructure provisions
  2. The cloture vote on the Paycheck Protection Act (filibuster)
  3. The cloture vote on the January 6th Commission (filibuster)
  4. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
  5. The confirmation of Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine
  6. The 2021 Impeachment vote
  7. The COVID Relief bill
  8. The confirmation of Interior Secretary Debra Haaland
Q. Why do we share this boring weighting data?
A. The fine folks at 538 Politics built a tracker that helped readers assess how often their MoCs voted with bills where former President Trump expressed an opinion. It was an amazing tool. But they weighted votes invisibly, and that was frustrating for close observers. There were weeks when no votes were taken, but scorecard numbers would fluctuate.  We hope to avoid that confusion by providing complete transparency on how we weight votes.
​Notes regarding how we use a multiplier to weigh bills:
  • 08.29.21 - both the Voting Rights bill and the infrastructure resolutions were given the highest weight (3).
  • 08.15.21 - the Reconciliation budget vote was given maximum weight for its extreme impact on wages, education and other human infrastructure provisions (3)
  • 07.04.21 - both the Inspectors General protection bill and the creation of the January 6th Select Committee received moderate weight (2)
  • 06.27.21 - in the House, both the lending rule reversal and the older worker protection bill received a moderate weight (2). The Senate filibuster of the For the People Act received the maximum weight (3).
  • 05.30.21 - the January 6th Commission Cloture vote was given maximum weight(3), but it did not affect the scores, as Senator Toomey was not present for the vote, and Senator Casey was already at 100%.
  • 05.23.21 - the COVID Hate Crimes act vote was given medium weight (20) while the January 6th Commission vote was given maximum weight(3).
  • 05.16.21 - The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act received medium weighting (2) as it addresses discrimination and worker protections for a significant but small group.
  • 04.25.21 - The DC statehood bill received the highest weighting (3) as it is a bill that is central to Indivisible's democracy strengthening agenda; the COVID Hate crimes Senate bill, and the pair of immigration actions received moderate weight (2) and the tabling of the Waters censure received the lowest eight (1).​
  • 04.18.21 - the Paycheck Fairness legislation was scored with a moderate weight (2). The same weighting was applied in June for the Senate filibuster of this bill.
  • 03.28.21 - The confirmation of Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine was scored with a moderate weight (2).
  • 03.21.21 - For House scoring, both immigration bills provide solutions that will affect millions of people, and they received the maximum weight (3). For the Senate votes, impeachment was weighted heavily (3), while the COVID Relief vote and Secretary Haaland Interior confirmation both received moderate weight (2).
  • 03.14.21 - The final vote on the COVID relief package received a moderate weighting (2) for the broad applicability, but short term effect, while the PRO Act of organized worker protections received the maximum weight, for it's broad application and equity effects for low income working people.
  • 03.07.21 - Both HR 1 and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are bills with broad application and both are major steps towards equity. Both get maximum weight (3).
  • 02.28.21 - The votes on impeachment and the Equality Act were weighted the most heavily (3), with their long term implications and broad application. The COVID relief package received a moderate weighting (2) for the broad applicability, but short term effect (this would be different if the minimum wage had a chance of staying in the final bill, as that has major equity implications). And the Taylor Greene resolution received the lowest weight (1), as it is more a statement of principles than anything else.