Who holds the most Black Shares in Congress?

These are the real bills that drive the score — the test every member is measured against, by pillar. Status is current to the 119th Congress. Most have not passed, which is exactly the point: we score who authors, leads, and votes for them, not just what becomes law.

Justice & civil rights

George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2025 (H.R. 5361) — lead sponsor Rep. Glenn Ivey; introduced Sept 2025, in committee.  ·  John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 14 / S. 2523) — author Rep. Terri Sewell; Senate leads Sen. Warnock & Sen. Durbin; passed the House in a prior Congress, blocked in the Senate.

Black wealth creation

American Opportunity Accounts Act ("baby bonds") — long championed by Sen. Cory Booker — seeded savings accounts to close the racial wealth gap.

Homeownership & small business capital

Downpayment Toward Equity Act and fair-lending / minority-business measures — led from House Financial Services by Rep. Maxine Waters.

Education & trades

HBCU funding — the FUTURE Act (enacted) and the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act, championed by Rep. Alma Adams, founder of the bipartisan HBCU Caucus.

Enacted milestones

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act (2022) and the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act (2021) became law — credit goes to their sponsors and the members who voted yes.

Sources: Congress.gov, GovTrack, member offices, and the NAACP Civil Rights Federal Legislative Report Card. This list grows as BAIPAC tracks each pillar's key votes. Members who authored or led these bills carry a ★ CHAMPION mark on the board below.

The Black Shares Index is data-only. No opinion, no emotion — a member's price reflects what they did on the record, nothing else.

Endorsement line

Once a member is fully scored across all five pillars from the vote record, any member at or above 75 Black Shares (Outperform) is endorsement-eligible — the top of the board is the endorsement list. Champions shown above are evidenced leaders whose composite price is pending full scoring; we never endorse on partial data.

The five fundamentals

Each member is scored on the five non-negotiables. Every fundamental is worth up to 20 Black Shares, summed to a price out of 100:

price = wealth + homeownership + capital + education + justice

Each fundamental is graded from recorded roll-call votes, bill sponsorships and cosponsorships, and committee action on legislation tied to that pillar: Champion (20) · Strong (15) · Mixed (10) · Weak (5) · Divest (0).

The rating ladder

The model & sources

BAIPAC scores in the tradition of the NAACP Civil Rights Federal Legislative Report Card, which since 1914 has graded every member of Congress A–F on recorded civil-rights votes. Like that report card, the Black Shares Index is a quantitative, vote-based assessment — a member's price reflects the public record, not anyone's opinion of them.

Roster and votes are taken from public records: Congress.gov, the Clerk of the House and the Senate roll-call records, and GovTrack. The seat roster syncs from the open unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset. Each pillar is tied to a named list of bills and votes; prices are re-scored each session and after any major vote tied to the agenda. A seat is never given a number we cannot point to a vote for.

For the BAIPAC team

Click any seat to score it: set each fundamental from the recorded votes and the price updates live. Export ratings saves your work to a file; Import ratings loads it back. Load roster fills in the member names by seat — drop in the official legislators-current.csv from the open congress-legislators dataset (or any JSON list), and every Senate and House seat populates automatically. Verify any individual name on Ballotpedia. Until a seat is scored it stays NOT RATED — the board never invents a number.