Committee Membership
A. Dutch Ruppersberger sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Appropriations
- Member, Subcommittee on Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Ruppersberger sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (29%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (13%) Taxation (13%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) International Affairs (8%) Health (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Ruppersberger’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4738: Digital Coast Act of 2016
- H.R. 3402: Federal Information Security Management Reform Act of 2015
- H.R. 2703: Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2015
- H.Res. 267: Expressing support for the designation of May as National Lacrosse Month.
- H.R. 234: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
- H.Res. 513 (113th): Supporting the goals and ideals of the week of May 3, 2014, ...
- H.Res. 485 (113th): Expressing support for “National One Love Day”.
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Voting Record
From Jan 2003 to Sep 2016, Ruppersberger missed 459 of 10,053 roll call votes, which is 4.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 11 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills