131. The Number Congress Doesn't Want You to Know.

35 senators. 96 representatives. All over seventy years old. 24 of them are over eighty years old. We are building a scorecard for every single one.

There are people who have represented the same district since before you had a cell phone. Many have been in office longer than their constituents have been alive. Some have held the same seat for four decades.

And until now, nobody has bothered to put a number on it.

We're fixing that.

What We're Building

The Congressional Vitality Index (CVI) is a 100-point scoring system that evaluates every member of Congress over seventy in five categories: age and tenure, electoral vulnerability, health and capacity, effectiveness and relevance, and controversy and scandals.

Each member gets a score. Each score gets a status.

PRIME. FADING. LIFE SUPPORT. CRITICAL CONDITION. FLATLINED.

We're not guessing. Every score is built from public records, official sources, documented reporting, and voting data. The methodology is published. The sourcing is cited. This isn't a vibe. It's a framework.

We're still building it, one member at a time. This takes longer than we'd like. Done properly it should. We're fine with that.

Why 131?

Because that's how many members of Congress are over 70 right now. 35 in the Senate. 96 in the House. That's one in four members of the legislative branch of the United States government.

Some of them are sharp. Some of them are not. Some of them represent districts so gerrymandered and safe they haven't faced a real challenger in years. Some of them chair committees that shape your healthcare, your economy, your country's foreign policy.

Most of them have never had to explain what they've actually accomplished.

131 members. One score each. We're working through them.

This Isn't About Age

Let's be direct: this isn't a crusade against old people. Age is one input in a five-category system. It matters, but it doesn't decide the score alone.

What this is about is accountability. Forty years in office is not a credential. It's a question. What did constituents get for four decades of the same representation? What changed? What improved? What was fought for and won?

A safe seat in a safe district with no primary challengers and no serious opposition isn't democracy working. Democracy has stalled.

The CVI puts a number on the stall.

What Happens with the Score

Each member we score gets a full profile page: findings across every category, sourced and documented, with a final CVI score and status designation. No spin. No political agenda beyond the one stated plainly in our name.

At some point, holding onto power stops being about serving constituents and starts being about not letting go. Meanwhile the country moves forward, the problems evolve, and a new generation is left waiting for a seat at a table that never opens. The CVI doesn't pick who should replace them. It just makes the case that the conversation is overdue.

New challenges need people who understand them. Old problems that have gone unsolved for thirty years aren't going to be fixed by the same people who presided over them.

This is a work in progress. If your rep isn't scored yet, they will be. 131 is the goal.

See the scores.