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Congress collaboration graph

Which members of Congress most often put their names on each other's bills. Members who frequently sponsor and cosponsor one another sit closer together and share a color, so collaboration clusters emerge from the data itself. This is a plain description of who works with whom on legislation — not a map of official caucuses, factions, endorsements, or anything to accuse anyone of.

These are statistical collaboration clusters computed from public bill-sponsorship data — not official caucuses, endorsements, or accusations. Clusters are labeled by size (Cluster 1, 2…), never by an imputed ideology.

Each tie counts the bills where one member is the primary sponsor and the other signed on as a cosponsor; ties are normalized so a few very active members don't dominate, then grouped into clusters and laid out so collaborators sit near each other. Learn more →

Computed from CivicGate CivicGate's own bill-sponsorship record · 119th Congress

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Chamber
Party
Non-matching nodes

Shared bills needed to draw a tie.

Yassamin AnsariMarsha BlackburnRichard BlumenthalCory A. BookerJudy ChuTed CruzRosa L. DelauroRichard J. DurbinJoni ErnstBrian K. FitzpatrickBrandon GillMazie K. HironoHenry C. "Hank" JohnsonPramila JayapalJennifer A. KiggansMichael LawlerEdward J. MarkeyGregory W. MeeksJeff MerkleyGrace MengMary E. MillerAugust PflugerJamie RaskinChip RoyRashida TlaibNikema Williams

Clusters

Derived from Congress.gov bill sponsorship & cosponsorship records — collaboration clusters, not official caucuses. Congress 119 · computed Aug 1, 2026 · 536 members · 2,912 ties.

Members by cluster (text view)

The same collaboration clusters as the graph, most-connected member first. Cluster numbers match the graph legend.

Cluster 1 165 members 1 Republican 164 Democratic

Cluster 2 110 members 104 Republican 5 Democratic 1 Independent

Cluster 3 73 members 32 Republican 41 Democratic

Cluster 4 69 members 69 Republican

Cluster 5 53 members 49 Republican 4 Democratic

Cluster 6 47 members 4 Republican 41 Democratic 2 Independent

Cluster 7 19 members 14 Republican 5 Democratic