Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Analysis

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 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 3, 2017 to May 20, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy subcommittees
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Environment subcommittees
• House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Ocasio-Cortez sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Housing and Community Development (17%) Commerce (13%) Environmental Protection (13%) Finance and Financial Sector (13%) International Affairs (13%) Labor and Employment (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Ocasio-Cortez recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7393: Improving VA Workforce Diversity Through Minority-serving Institutions Act of 2022
• H.Res. 899: Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1579) to prohibit Members of …
• H.R. 6549: To provide support for international initiatives to provide debt relief to developing countries …
• H.R. 6419: Fair Chance Improvement Act
• H.R. 5700: 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act
• H.R. 5285: Extend Unemployment Assistance Act of 2021
• H.R. 4620: To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to limit the exemption provided …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to May 2022, Ocasio-Cortez missed 15 of 1,635 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.1% 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