Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

Born 1979-01-25 | Democrat | FL

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Ideology score (-1 = most liberal, +1 = most conservative): 117th House: -0.43 (more conservative than 16% of the chamber); 118th House: -0.43 (more conservative than 17% of the chamber); 119th House: -0.43 (more conservative than 18% of the chamber) What is this?

CongressChamberStatePartyVotes castMissedMissed %Party votesWith partyUnity %SponsoredBecame lawLaw %
117thHouseFLDemocrat53820.428127698.2300.0
118thHouseFLDemocrat1200352.884683899.11400.0
119thHouseFLDemocrat473132.734734098.01700.0

Key votes

VoteDateResultHow they votedMatched party majority?
Epstein Files Transparency Act (House)2025-11-18PassedYeaYes
Government funding law ending the 2025 shutdown (House)2025-11-12PassedNayYes
GENIUS Act (House)2025-07-17PassedYeaNo
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (House)2025-07-03PassedNayYes
TAKE IT DOWN Act (House)2025-04-28PassedYeaYes
Laken Riley Act (House)2025-01-22PassedNayYes
TikTok divestiture bill (House)2024-03-13PassedYeaYes
Impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas (House)2024-02-13PassedNayYes
Fiscal Responsibility Act (House)2023-05-31PassedYeaYes
Fiscal 2023 government funding law (House)2022-12-23PassedYeaYes
Respect for Marriage Act (House)2022-12-08PassedYeaYes
Inflation Reduction Act (House)2022-08-12PassedYeaYes
CHIPS and Science Act (House)2022-07-28PassedYeaYes
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (House)2022-06-24PassedYeaYes
Honoring our PACT Act (House)2022-03-03PassedYeaYes

About these votes

Voting patterns

CongressChamberAgainst both parties% of votes where parties agreedWith winning side %Close votesVoted onMissed
117thHouse31.296.11990
118thHouse123.450.11221175
119thHouse10.836.91581130

Votes most like theirs (119th Congress, House)

MemberPartyStateAgreement
James R. WalkinshawDVA99.6%
Frederica S. WilsonDFL99.2%
Lois FrankelDFL99.1%
George LatimerDNY98.9%
Grace MengDNY98.8%

Votes least like theirs (119th Congress, House)

MemberPartyStateAgreement
Chip RoyRTX14.7%
Eric BurlisonRMO15.5%
Ralph NormanRSC15.6%
Andy BiggsRAZ15.9%
Josh BrecheenROK16.6%

Against both parties counts votes where the Democratic and Republican majorities took the same side and the member voted the other way. With winning side counts votes that matched the final outcome. A close vote is a roll call decided by 5 votes or fewer; absences can have many causes. Agreement is the share of votes both members cast on which they voted the same way (at least 100 shared votes). Independents who caucus with a party count as part of it, and delegates are left out of the party tallies. Counts cover members in this site's data and may differ slightly from official tallies.

Cosponsorship

CongressCosponsoredAcross partyAcross %Avg cosponsors on own billsOwn bills with other-party cosponsorShare %
117th211125.71.300.0
118th52010319.820.7750.0
119th3375716.94.2423.5

Cosponsorship counts bills and joint resolutions only. A cosponsorship is across party lines when the cosponsor and the bill's sponsor are in different parties; independents who caucus with a party count as part of it, and members outside both caucuses are left out of the percentages. Totals can differ slightly from Congress.gov because of withdrawn cosponsors. The 119th Congress is still in progress.

A party vote is a roll call where the Democratic and Republican majorities took opposite sides. Unity % is how often the member sided with their own party's majority on those votes. Sponsored counts bills and joint resolutions only. Became law means the bill itself was enacted; bills whose text was folded into other legislation are not counted. The 119th Congress is still in progress.

In the news

Cherfilus-McCormick resigns ahead of Ethics Committee decision

NPR | Apr 21, 2026 | Members: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

Florida Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned shortly before the House Ethics Committee was due to decide on discipline, which could have included an expulsion vote. She faces a federal trial over allegedly stolen disaster funds and called the process unfair.

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