U.S. Senator, West Virginia · Republican · in office since Jan. 14, 2025
James C. Justice
U.S. Senator · West Virginia · Republican · in the Senate since Jan. 2025
Chamber
Senate
not yet gradeable
West Virginia outcomes during their Senate service
Category
Latest
Score vs. peers
Education scale score
260.8 ’24
Too early
Air quality AQI
40 ’24
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Water quality % of systems with a violation
31.5 ’25
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Unemployment %
4.2 ’25
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Health coverage % of adults 18-64 uninsured
9.7 ’24
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Tax burden % of personal income
7.1 ’24
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Energy cost cents/kWh
15.1 ’24
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Cost of living index, US=100
89.5 ’24
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Homicide age-adjusted deaths per 100,000
5.9 ’24
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Teen births per 1,000 females 15-19
17.8 ’24
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Wellbeing mean poor-mental-health days of 30
5.8 ’24
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Obesity % of adults
41.4 ’24
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Early literacy % of 4th-graders below basic
47.4 ’24
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Gun deaths age-adjusted deaths per 100,000
15.3 ’24
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Food-aid access index (higher = easier access)
0.8 ’23
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Jobless-benefit access % of unemployed receiving UI
24.4 ’24
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No West Virginia metric yet has a long enough series inside Justice’s Senate service to score a trend, so the levels above are context and carry no σ. “Latest” is a different year by metric (2023–2025); every row states its own. Each row’s window, source and last-checked date are behind its ? button.
Their own record
Value
Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0
Data pending
Missed votes lifetime, all service (GovTrack)
4.2%
Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right · 119th Congress sponsorship analysis (GovTrack)
0.70
Promises kept
In human review
A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so they are scored on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — ranked against other senators — alongside their own legislative record. Influence is shared with 99 colleagues and the governor; the score shows relative movement, not sole credit. Methodology v2.5
The national debt on their watch
context — not this member’s grade
When Justice first took office in 2025, the federal debt stood at $35.46 trillion (end of fiscal 2024; 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 Justice’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.
Total public debt outstanding, fiscal 2024–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.
No recorded votes among the tracked bills that carry a CBO deficit estimate.
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 — 25% of the rubric, reserved until Justice is gradeable at all; on the card above it appears only as the “Promises kept — In human review” row. What Justice 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 Justice. 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 Justice →
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
16 bills and resolutions sponsored in the 119th Congress — the newest:
S. 5169 — Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Boundary Expansion and Partnersh…
Latest action (2026-07-29): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
S. 5140 — Digital Equities and No Automatic Disqualifications Act
Latest action (2026-07-27): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
S.Res. 804 — A resolution commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 2016 West Virginia floods.
Latest action (2026-07-15): Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.…
Latest action (2026-04-21): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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
No recorded votes on the bills this site tracks line by line. The full roll-call record is public at Congress.gov.
Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of Justice’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money Justice 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
$7.01T71% 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 Justice is graded
A senator’s constituency is the whole state, so Justice is graded on the same verified state outcomes as the governor — measured as the change on their watch versus the other 49 states, capped because influence is shared with 99 colleagues, the governor and a world economy — blended with the one thing we can measure of what they personally control: how far the legislation they sponsor actually moves. Voting alignment and attendance are defined in the rubric but reserved, not counted, so no vote of theirs is in this grade today. Every part decomposes on the card above, and the “measured” figure says how much of the grade is real versus still reserved.
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.