Bills · 118th and 119th Congresses, 2023–2026

Bills Congress voted on

208 bills that got a recorded vote in the House or Senate, each with a plain-English summary and what happened to it.

How we picked them

Why this matters: Choosing which bills to show can tilt a guide. So we didn't choose by topic or by who won — a fixed set of rules did, the same for every bill.

We started with every recorded vote to pass a bill or joint resolution in the House or Senate from January 2023 through the latest votes available (in the Senate, a vote to end debate counts when the bill never got a passage vote). A bill made the list if one of those votes was:

  • Close — the winning side won by 10 percentage points or less of the votes cast.
  • Across party lines — most Democrats and most Republicans voted opposite ways, but at least 10% of one party (and at least 10 House members or 3 senators) sided with the other party.
  • Split within a party — most of both parties agreed, but at least a quarter of one party (and at least 10 House members or 3 senators) voted the other way.
  • Contested and became law — it became law even though at least 10% of the members voting voted no.

To keep any one subject from crowding out the rest, we kept at most five bills per subject area (the Congressional Research Service's own subject labels) per Congress, plus at most eight votes to overturn federal agency rules, choosing the closest and most cross-party votes first. Vote counts come from the official House and Senate roll calls, as compiled by Voteview; bill details come from Congress.gov.

We also track 102 bills with broad support from both parties that never got a vote at all.

119th Congress (2025–2026)

107 bills.

118th Congress (2023–2024)

101 bills.