Please join our advisory group to let us know what more we can do. We hope that with your input we can make GovTrack more accessible to minority and disadvantaged communities who we may currently struggle to reach. Our mission is to empower every American with the tools to understand and impact Congress. By joining our advisory group, you can help us make GovTrack more useful and engaging to young voters like you. Young Americans have historically been the least involved in politics, despite the huge consequences policies can have on them. Please sign up for our advisory group to be a part of making GovTrack a better tool for what you do. We hope to make GovTrack more useful to policy professionals like you. Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.įreshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 116th Congress) was the 116 th Congress (freshmen) or 115 th (sophomores). Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions). Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e.
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics. Subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. 3092: District of Columbia Police Home …Ĭompanion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. 3003: National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program … H.R. 2726: Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act … H.R. 1146: Expressing support for the designation … H.R. 1122: Expressing support for dance as … H.Res. 1095: Expressing support for the designation … H.Res. 1091: Expressing support for the designation … H.Res. 638: Congratulating the Washington Mystics on … H.Res. 600: Expressing support for the designation … H.Res. 583: Expressing support for the designation … H.Res. 566: Expressing support for dance as … H.Res. 541: Expressing support for the designation … H.Res.
Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate. 13 of Norton’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber.
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