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Maxwell Frost

U.S. Representative, FL-10 · Democratic · current term began Jan. 3, 2025

Maxwell Frost
U.S. Representative · Florida-10 · Democratic · current term began Jan. 2025
Overall grade · among representatives
−0.10σ
No. 221 of 358 · 4 others at the same σ · 30% of the grade measured
How this grade is built
30%Bills they move (LES, 118th Congress)−0.10
25%Florida: how it moved on their watchreserved
10%Fiscal votes (CBO-scored laws)reserved
25%Alignment (promises vs. votes)reserved
10%Attendance (missed votes)reserved
Their own recordValue
Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0 · 118th Congress
0.28
Missed votes lifetime, all service (GovTrack)0.8%
Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right · 119th Congress sponsorship analysis (GovTrack)0.18
Promises keptIn human review
Florida context — not this member’s grade

House members represent a district, not the whole state, so state numbers aren’t their grade. District-level scoring is in development. The state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, holds the scored executive record.

Scored on their own record; district outcome scoring is in development. Methodology v2.5

The Rundown

No. 221 of 358 representatives — on the 30% of the grade we can actually measure.

Bills that move. A Legislative Effectiveness Score of 0.28 — the scale is set so each chamber averages 1.00, and it counts only the bills a member sponsors themselves and how far each one gets. The grade scores that against members of the same chamber on the same side of the majority, so it reflects lawmaking rather than who holds the gavel: the same score sits differently in the majority than out of it. Measured over the 118th Congress, now complete.

Not counted — 70% of the rubric. fiscal votes (10%): needs recorded votes on at least 3 laws carrying a CBO deficit estimate; 1 so far · promise-keeping (25%): promise/position alignment publishes only after two agreeing human reviews · attendance (10%): needs per-Congress missed votes; our figure is lifetime · state/district outcomes (25%): no defensible district trend exists yet (redistricting)

So Frost is graded on bills alone — not a verdict on a career. House members are never handed their state's numbers — a representative serves a district, and no honest district trend exists yet. Everything reserved above publishes the moment it can be measured fairly, and never before.

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The national debt on their watch

context — not this member’s grade

When Frost first took office in 2023, the federal debt stood at $30.93 trillion (end of fiscal 2022; Treasury). As of 2026-08-06 it is $39.89 trillion (Treasury, daily). That rise spans presidents, majorities and economies — it belongs to no single member, which is why it is context here and part of no grade. What is Frost’s own: their recorded votes when the major fiscal bills came through, beside what the Congressional Budget Office estimated each law would do to deficits.

$10T$20T$30T$40T202220242026took office · $30.93 trillion$39.89 trillion
Total public debt outstanding, fiscal 2022–present, in nominal dollars — no adjustment for inflation or the size of the economy, so early decades understate their era’s burden. Y-axis starts at zero. Source: Treasury.
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Debt figures as of the data refresh on 2026-08-08. These same votes feed the grade’s fiscal-conduct block (10%, methodology v2.5) — the debt itself feeds nothing: it belongs to no single member, and only their own votes are scored. The change is preregistered and dated in the changelog.

The promise ledger

The evidence base for the promise-keeping block of the grade — the 25% shown as reserved on the card above. What Frost said they would do, in their own words, beside what they did. Said-columns hold verbatim quotes only, from dated, linkable sources, and publish only after two agreeing human reviews — the methodology’s bar, and the reason a column may be empty: the bar does not move to fill it.

In their speeches

No promise from a speech has been published for Frost. One appears here only as a verbatim quote from a dated transcript, and only after two agreeing human reviews — the column stays empty until something clears that bar. The raw material is public meanwhile: search C-SPAN’s video archive for Frost

In their advertising

None published yet — same bar as speeches. The public archives are searchable now: the Meta Ad Library and Google’s ad-transparency archive, searched by name — a search, so same-named others may appear in the results.

Bills they introduced

26 bills and resolutions sponsored in the 119th Congress — the newest:

  • H.R. 9189Right to Record Act of 2026
    Latest action (2026-06-08): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
  • H.R. 8749SAFE through Medicare Act
    Latest action (2026-05-12): Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a pe…
  • H.R. 8727No Illegal Captivity and Extensions Act of 2026
    Latest action (2026-05-11): Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
  • H.R. 8408Legacy IT Reduction Act of 2026
    Latest action (2026-04-21): Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
  • H.R. 8409Post-Disaster Protection Act
    Latest action (2026-04-21): Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

From the Congress.gov API, as of 2026-08-08. Latest actions are quoted from the record — most introduced bills die in committee, and that is part of the record too.

How they voted
  • H.R. 3746voted Yea
    what it contains, dollar by dollar →
  • H.R. 2670voted Nay
    what it contains, dollar by dollar →
  • H.R. 4366voted Nay
    what it contains, dollar by dollar →
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How Frost voted

3 tracked bills

These are the major bills this site tracks line by line — not a full voting record. A member casts hundreds of votes a Congress; these 3 are the ones whose spending has been extracted and cited from the enacted text.

BillVotedTracked spendingRoll call
H.R. 4366
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024
Against$655.0BMarch 6, 2024
H.R. 2670
NDAA FY2024
Against$676MDec. 14, 2023
H.R. 3746
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
For$66.7BMay 31, 2023

Every date links to the official roll call for Frost’s own chamber. “Did not vote” is not “absent” — the record shows no vote was cast and gives no reason, which is often illness, travel or a paired vote. Nothing on this table is counted toward or against Frost’s grade.

What Frost voted to fund

These pies aggregate the largest verified spending items — appropriations and mandatory outlays — in the bills Frost cast a recorded vote on, sliced by category, every dollar quoted from the bill text. Authorizations, guarantee ceilings and pay-fors are excluded, exactly as on the bill pages. This shows what the bills contained, by Frost’s own votes — not a claim that Frost wrote the spending or that it did or didn’t work. Every dollar in these pies is quoted from the bill text and cited, item by item, on the bill’s own page.

Voted to fund
1 bill · voted Yea
$66.7Btracked
  • veterans$44.7B · 67%
  • commerce & housing credit$22.0B · 33%

Quoted in full on the bill page: H.R. 3746.

Voted against
2 bills · voted Nay
$655.6Btracked
  • veterans$306.4B · 47%
  • income security$215.5B · 33%
  • science$35.0B · 5%
  • defense$29.2B · 4%
  • other$24.4B · 4%
  • transportation$15.3B · 2%
  • water$11.7B · 2%
  • energy$10.7B · 2%
  • community & regional development$6.7B · 1%
  • health$676.0M · 0.1%

Quoted in full on the bill pages: H.R. 2670 · H.R. 4366.

Largest items

The remaining 38 items are quoted in full on the bill pages.

Federal spending during Frost’s current term

Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of Frost’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money Frost personally directed. A president proposes and Congress appropriates; no single official controls it.

Nominal dollars — not adjusted for inflation. Bar lengths compare dollars of different years, so a longer bar can be higher prices rather than more spending. Do not read these bars as a real trend.

FY25
$7.01T74% in term−$1.77T deficit

Source: OMB Historical Tables, Table 1.1 (Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789-present) · figures · compiled Aug. 8, 2026. Fiscal years run Oct–Sep, so they do not line up with the start of a term — marked above with the share that fell inside this term.

Closed fiscal years published for this term so far: FY2025 only. FY2026 closes Sept. 30, 2026 and OMB has not published it. A short chart here means the term is young and the series stops at the last closed year — not that spending stopped.

How Frost is graded

A representative serves a district, not a state, and no honest district-level outcome trend exists yet — redistricting redrew the lines and leaves too few data points. So Frost is graded on bills alone: how far the legislation they sponsor actually moves. Voting alignment and attendance are in the rubric but reserved, not counted, so 30% of this grade is measured and the card says so. The state’s numbers are shown as context on the card, never folded into the grade, until district-level scoring ships.

Legislative Effectiveness Scores come from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which benchmarks each chamber’s average to 1.0. Voting statistics come from GovTrack. The Honesty ledger — promises matched against this member’s votes — publishes only with an evidence trail and two agreeing human reviews.