- SP Prime sponsor (pro-animal legislation) or caucus co-chair
- Took pro-animal position through co-sponsoring a bill, voting, signing a letter, membership in caucus, or leading on pro-animal issue(s)
- Led on multiple legislative and/or regulatory efforts, a top priority measure or a requested sign-on letter
- Took anti-animal position on a vote
- NV Did not vote due to absence or abstention
- NV*Put statement in Congressional Record (and notified us) indicating missed vote but would have voted pro‐animal
- 100+ Pro-animal position on 1 scored item in the Senate or 8 scored items in the House plus extra credit for leading on pro-animal issue(s) or signing requested letter(s)
- • Delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia cannot vote on bills or amendments on the House floor unless they are taken in the “Committee of the Whole”
- ••The top leaders of each party typically don't co-sponsor bills and the Speaker of the House doesn't vote, so they have no numerical scores
- •••Subcommittee and committee leaders don’t sign letters to themselves, so their scores are based on other scored items
- #Filled seat during term
- ##Resigned during term
- ###Passed away during term
Note: In some cases, legislators must miss votes for unavoidable personal reasons, such as a death in the family, serious illness, birth of a child or emergency in their district.
