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U.S. Senator, New Mexico · Democrat

Ben Ray Luján

33 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.

915 recorded votes

  • Voted for29332.0%
  • Voted against61066.7%
  • Did not vote121.3%
98.7%
of the votes they could cast
33
statements indexed
1,265
words on the floor

Turned up for 98.7% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.

In plain English

Luján voted 99 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Jon Ossoff more than anyone else. The two agreed 96 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with Susan M. Collins. They agreed 25 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 3 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 3, 2021
Terms served
1 term in the Senate
Previously
6 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2027
Born
June 7, 1972

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Only three headings repeat in Luján's indexed remarks, on the Department of Homeland Security, on H.R. 1 and on resolutions of congressional disapproval. Everything else appears once, taking in nutrition assistance and federal workers in New Mexico.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

33 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Ben Ray Luján’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 33 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

The Senate takes 54 votes of this kind this Congress against the House's 391: its floor time goes to cloture motions and nominations, where a yes does not mean pass the thing. There is not enough here to set out.

Voting With Their Party

On the 842 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Ben Ray Luján voted on 830 and was with the Democrat majority on 809 of them.

830 party line votes cast

  • With their party80997.5%
  • Against their party212.5%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Ben Ray Luján as speaking in 172 items of business across 36 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 915 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Senate lists Ben Ray Luján. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 915 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other New Mexico seat in this chamber is held by Martin Heinrich.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.