Adam Kinzinger, Representative for Illinois's 16th Congressional District

Kinzinger is the representative for Illinois’s 16^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Kinzinger is next up for reelection in 2018.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 2011 to 2012.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Kinzinger.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Kinzinger is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Kinzinger has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

United States Chamber of Commerce: 96% Americans for Prosperity: 80% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B The Club for Growth: 56% FreedomWorks: 55% NumbersUSA: 44% Human Rights Campaign: 36% NIAC Action: D League of Conservation Voters: 6% American Civil Liberties Union: 5% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Adam Kinzinger sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
- Member, Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Kinzinger sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (30%) Science, Technology, Communications (22%) Energy (19%) Health (11%) Transportation and Public Works (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (5%) Immigration (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Kinzinger’s Vote	Vote Description
No	S. 140: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund. Jan 10, 2018. Passed 239/173. The Rules Committee Print includes the text of S. 140, to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund, S. 249, a bill to provide that the pueblo of Santa ...
Nay	H.Res. 599: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to United States policy towards Yemen, and for other purposes. Nov 13, 2017. Passed 366/30.
Nay	H.R. 511: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015 Nov 17, 2015. Passed 249/177.
Aye	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
Yea	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Nay	H.Con.Res. 105 (113th): Prohibiting the President from deploying or maintaining United States Armed Forces in a sustained combat role in ... Jul 25, 2014. Passed 370/40.
Nay	S. 25 (113th): South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act Feb 11, 2014. Passed 326/90. This is a budget bill that makes small changes to the budget deal enacted previously. Although the bill began as the "South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act" and had passed the Senate in that form, the House replaced the text of the bill in whole ...
Nay	H.R. 1022 (112th): Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act Jan 25, 2012. Passed 338/70.
Aye	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Sep 2018, Kinzinger missed 69 of 5,244 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	45^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	6	2.4%	67^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	6	2.9%	62^nd
2012 Jan-Mar	151	18	11.9%	93^rd
2012 Apr-Jun	299	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	58^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	2	0.9%	38^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	26^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	5	3.4%	76^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	2	4.1%	76^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	3	2.1%	50^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	1	0.4%	27^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	2	1.4%	53^rd
2015 Oct-Dec	177	1	0.6%	31^st
2016 Jan-Mar	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	1	0.5%	19^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	23^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	3	1.4%	51^st
2017 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	31^st
2017 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	7	3.8%	60^th
2018 Jul-Sep	86	4	4.7%	72^nd

Primary Sources

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

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Adam Kinzinger is pronounced:

A-dum // KIN-zing-er

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
D d	day
ER er	her
I i	pin
K k	king
M m	man
N n	not
NG ng	sing
U u	cup
Z z	zebra

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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