Virginia’s federal legislators ranked on how bipartisan their record is from 2021
Spanberger was top 5 for the entire House chamber
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The rundown
A ranking of Virginia’s federal legislators on their bipartisan record during 2021.
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Virginia’s federal legislators ranked on how bipartisan their record is from 2021
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) was ranked as the most bipartisan federal legislator in Virginia by the nonpartisan Bipartisan Index released by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Spanberger ranked fifth out of 434 members in the House of Representatives.
“Virginians expect me to work tirelessly to get things done — and this mission necessitates finding common ground and working with both parties to achieve progress on the issues most important to the people I represent,” Spanberger said Thursday. “This year, I am honored to once again be ranked as one of the most bipartisan Members of Congress and the most bipartisan Member of Congress from Virginia.”
The Bipartisan Index measures how often a member of Congress introduces bills that attract co-sponsors from the other party, and how often they in turn co-sponsor a bill introduced from across the aisle. The rankings and scores issued today cover legislative activity for 2021, the first year of the Biden presidency, and the first time since 2010 that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.
“Many observers speculated how well members of Congress would work together in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,” said Lugar Center Policy Director Dan Diller. “Regrettably, the new 2021 Bipartisan Index scores offer strong quantitative evidence that bipartisanship at the individual member level plummeted last year.”