Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Ocasio-Cortez.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Ocasio-Cortez 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 Ocasio-Cortez has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 1, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets subcommittees
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Environment subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Ocasio-Cortez sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (29%) Finance and Financial Sector (21%) Housing and Community Development (21%) Emergency Management (14%) Environmental Protection (14%)

Recent Bills

Some of Ocasio-Cortez’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 7221: To prohibit law enforcement officers from using chemical weapons in the course of ...
• H.R. 6989: Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act of 2020
• H.R. 6852: To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of ...
• H.R. 6851: To require major corporations receiving Federal aid related to COVID-19 to make annual ...
• H.R. 6828: COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Fund
• H.R. 6827: Corporate Accountability Act
• H.R. 6779: To specify the ineligibility requirements based on illegal activity or criminal record applicable ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jul 2020, Ocasio-Cortez missed 5 of 839 roll call votes, which is 0.6%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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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
• Office of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills