Rep. Shelley Capito

Sponsorship Analysis

Capito is a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

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Committee Membership

Shelley Capito sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  • Chairman, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
  • Member, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
  • Member, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
  • Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Capito’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 1830: Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013
• H.R. 1829: Coal Jobs Protection Act of 2013
• H.R. 1553: Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act
• H.Res. 151: Recognizing the sesquicentennial of West Virginia statehood.
• H.R. 5961 (112th): Farmer’s Privacy Act of 2012
• H.R. 5565 (112th): To reduce temporarily the duty on mixtures containing Imidacloprid and Cyfluthrin or ...
• H.R. 4876 (112th): To extend the temporary reduction of duty on Imidacloprid.

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Voting Record

From Jan 2001 to May 2013, Capito missed 109 of 8,728 roll call votes, which is 1.2%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills