Election night 2022 brought a lot of hope among Washington Republicans that the new GOP majority would result in major victories.

But since that night, the House has instead stumbled through speaker fights and policy differences, prompting the No. 1 scorer of Republicans to call it a failed period.

“Despite the presence of more opportunities to vote on key issues and their majority in the House, Republicans generally failed to have any major positive effect on the overall state of affairs in Congress,” said Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference’s chairman, in his annual ratings score card from the group’s Center for Legislative Accountability.

“Much of the year was wasted on continuing resolutions that kept in place Nancy Pelosi’s exorbitant spending policies and failed Congressional Review Act resolutions that let the corrupt bureaucracy in the executive branch maintain its abusive authority,” Schlapp added.

The 74-page report card shared with Secrets plays a big role in Republican politics during election years because it grades all House and Senate members on their votes on several policies voters care about. In the new report, the 53rd done by the group, the number of votes scored was expanded because there was more action on Republican policies.

But despite big hopes, the numbers of lawmakers who scored 100 changed little from 2022 to 2023. In the House, the number increased by one, from 14 in 2022 to 15 last year. In the Senate, it dropped from just three to one, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).

Notably, new Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), who replaced former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, scored 100.

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Among the highlighted changes in 2023 by CPAC were these three:

— Among the lowest-scoring Republican members of the Senate were Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 68%; Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), 59%; Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), 55%; and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), 54%.

— Despite being touted by the media as “moderates,” the highest-scoring Democrats in the Senate were Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), 30%; Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), 15%; and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), 12%.

— Democrats only voted with the conservative position an average of 2% of the time, demonstrating a level of cohesion not found among Republicans, the likes of whom average 80%. In total, Congress votes with the conservative position just 41% of the time.