Rand Paul

16 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2011

• Senator KY 2011–present

• background Born January 7, 1963 in Pittsburgh; Duke School of Medicine graduate
• background Ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky (1993–2010)
• role U.S. senator from Kentucky since 2011
• role Chair of Senate Homeland Security Committee
• achievement Candidate for Republican presidential nomination 2016
• achievement Won third Senate term in 2022

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $5,708 · 79 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 90.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 53
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 82 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 53 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 8 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 13
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Rand Paul. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman
• Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Foreign Relations Committee
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · oversees Health
• Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ex Officio
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
• Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Education and the American Family Subcommittee
• Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee
• Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee · oversees Health
• State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• Economy & TaxesOppose from votes
• Foreign PolicyOppose from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Paul most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Paul connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov