Every member of Congress is graded. Signers and refusers alike.

The Pledge is the opt-in version of accountability. The Report Card is the opt-out version. A member gets one or the other. There's no third option where a voting record stays private from the people who paid for it.

Grading begins when the first Planks are ratified, in the Review Window after the November 2026 election. This page explains the method now so there's no surprise later.

Each member, each Congress, on three questions per Plank

Grades are binary. Kept or broken for signers. Supported or blocked for non-signers. Every underlying vote is cited and linked. No editorializing. No vibes. No partisan weighting. The record is the grade.

Passage only grades a clean vote. Not a poisoned one.

The Passage column grades clean-vehicle votes only. A Plank has to reach the floor as a clean, single-subject measure matching its published compliance test for a yes vote to count as Passage. If a Plank is buried inside unrelated legislation, or loaded with a poison-pill amendment designed to gut, delay, or break it, that's not a Plank vote by the Candidate Pledge's own terms.

When leadership offers only a poisoned vehicle, members are graded under Floor instead: did they support every procedural path to a clean vote, including a discharge petition or a demand for a clean substitute? A buried-Plank vote is never graded as Passage, for signers or non-signers.

This closes an obvious attack: a hostile leadership team can't force a signer to choose between breaking the Pledge and voting for an unrelated rider, and then call that choice the signer's failure.

Leadership votes are part of the record

Chamber leadership elections, Speaker of the House and equivalent leadership votes, are recorded votes and appear on the card. Floor control is the chokepoint every Plank has to pass through. Who a member chooses to hand that control to is part of their record, whether or not they signed the Pledge.