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U.S. Senator, Rhode Island · Democrat

Sheldon Whitehouse

163 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.

915 recorded votes

  • Voted for29732.5%
  • Voted against58263.6%
  • Did not vote363.9%
96.1%
of the votes they could cast
163
statements indexed
6,885
words on the floor

Turned up for 96.1% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.

In plain English

Whitehouse voted 96 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Richard Blumenthal more than anyone else. The two agreed 95 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with Susan M. Collins. They agreed 27 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 4, 2007
Terms served
4 terms in the Senate
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2031
Born
October 20, 1955

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Two subjects carry most of Whitehouse's indexed remarks. Resolutions of congressional disapproval account for 20 and the Congressional Review Act for six more; climate change accounts for 16. A stablecoins bill follows at seven, then the anniversary of the Gaspee raid and the nominations of Todd Blanche and Russell Vought.

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

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

All 163 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, Sheldon Whitehouse voted on 811 and was with the Democrat majority on 770 of them.

811 party line votes cast

  • With their party77094.9%
  • Against their party415.1%

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 Sheldon Whitehouse as speaking in 191 items of business across 100 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 Sheldon Whitehouse. 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 Rhode Island seat in this chamber is held by Jack Reed.

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