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Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s 2019 Report Card

Representative from Illinois's 16th District
Republican
Served Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2023

These year-end statistics cover Kinzinger’s record during the 2019 legislative year (Jan 3, 2019-Dec 31, 2019) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 18, 2020.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Kinzinger’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Cosponsored the 3rd fewest bills compared to Illinois Delegation

Kinzinger cosponsored 165 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (11th percentile); House Republicans (64th percentile); All Representatives (32nd percentile).

 

Got the 3rd fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to Illinois Delegation

Kinzinger’s bills and resolutions had 85 cosponsors in 2019. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (11th percentile); House Republicans (54th percentile); All Representatives (33rd percentile).

 

Ranked the 3rd bottom/follower compared to Illinois Delegation

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2019 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Kinzinger’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (11th percentile); House Republicans (56th percentile); All Representatives (35th percentile).

 

Ranked 4th most politically right compared to Illinois Delegation

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2019 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Kinzinger’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (78th percentile); House Republicans (35th percentile); All Representatives (70th percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 14th most often compared to All Representatives

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 165 bills that Kinzinger cosponsored, 66% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (94th percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 17th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 4 others)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 11 of Kinzinger’s 13 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Kinzinger caucused with in 2019.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (89th percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
 

Got influential cosponsors the 28th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 16 others)

3 of Kinzinger’s bills and resolutions in 2019 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: H.R. 466: Amateur Radio Parity Act of …; H.R. 1453: European Energy Security and Diversification …; H.R. 4461: Network Security Information Sharing Act …

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (28th percentile); House Republicans (78th percentile); All Representatives (59th percentile).

 

Was 70th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 6 others)

Kinzinger missed 4.7% of votes (33 of 701 votes) in 2019. View Kinzinger’s Profile »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (78th percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.
 

Laws Enacted

Kinzinger introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2019. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
 

Bills Introduced

Kinzinger introduced 13 bills and resolutions in 2019. View Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (28th percentile); House Republicans (72nd percentile); All Representatives (51st percentile).

 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Kinzinger introduced 3 bills in 2019 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.R. 1616: European Energy Security and Diversification …; H.R. 3206: Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act …; H.R. 4461: Network Security Information Sharing Act …

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (50th percentile); House Republicans (86th percentile); All Representatives (66th percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 2 of Kinzinger’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.R. 1616: European Energy Security and Diversification …; H.R. 5481: Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act …

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (28th percentile); House Republicans (63rd percentile); All Representatives (46th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Committee Positions

Kinzinger held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Kinzinger’s Profile »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (44th percentile); All Representatives (42nd percentile).

Additional Notes

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.

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. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

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”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2019) was the 116th Congress (freshmen) or 115th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.