This report identifies members with low average Congress Report Card scores across multiple issues,
after minimum activity thresholds are applied. It is designed to be simple, readable, and printable.
Purpose:
show where congressional performance is weakest using objective, data-driven scoring.
This is not a popularity ranking. It is generated from bill activity, issue classification,
progress, outcomes, and report-card scoring.
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Report Summary
Scope-Selected report view.
Year-Reporting year.
Rows-Members shown.
Minimum Activity-Bills and issue minimum.
Failure Rankings
Methodology
This report ranks members whose average issue score is below 60 after minimum activity thresholds are applied.
Minimum bills required: -.
Minimum issues required: -.
The ranking is generated from the same Congress Report Card scoring model used for issue leaderboards.
Manual issue overrides may affect which bills count toward an issue score.
References and Data Sources
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Legislative source data: Congress.gov bill, sponsor, cosponsor, summary, and subject data imported through the Congress Report Card pipeline.
Scoring source: Voice to Congress Congress Report Card scoring model.
Classification source: automated issue classification plus manual review overrides.
The House view expects top_10_failures_2025_house.json.
To add another state view, export the matching state file, for example
top_10_failures_2025_pa.json, and place it in this page's data folder.
