Rep. Alma Adams’s 2017 Report Card
Representative
from North Carolina's 12th District
Democrat
Serving Nov 12, 2014 – Jan 3, 2025
These year-end statistics cover Adams’s record during the 2017 legislative year (Jan 3, 2017-Dec 31, 2017) and compare her to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 6, 2018.
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 Adams’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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Got influential cosponsors the most often compared to North Carolina Delegation5 of Adams’s bills and resolutions in 2017 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.Res. 563: Honoring the accomplishments of the …; H.Res. 586: Recognizing the growth and importance …; H.R. 1276: Closing the Meal Gap Act …; H.R. 1629: Public Safety and Wildlife Protection …; H.Con.Res. 75: Expressing the sense of the … Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (92nd percentile); House Sophomores (84th percentile); House Democrats (86th percentile); All Representatives (87th percentile). |
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Ranked most politically left compared to North Carolina DelegationOur 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 2017 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Adams’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (11th percentile); House Democrats (38th percentile); All Representatives (17th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 3rd fewest bills compared to North Carolina Delegation (tied with 3 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 2 of Adams’s 10 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2017. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (15th percentile); House Sophomores (13th percentile); House Democrats (19th percentile); All Representatives (18th percentile). |
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Got the 13th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House SophomoresAdams’s bills and resolutions had 240 cosponsors in 2017. 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 North Carolina Delegation (77th percentile); House Sophomores (79th percentile); House Democrats (67th percentile); All Representatives (72nd percentile). |
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Was 16th most present in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 13 others)Adams missed 0.1% of votes (1 of 710 votes) in 2017. View Adams’s Profile » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (15th percentile); House Sophomores (5th percentile); All Representatives (3rd 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. |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 42nd least often compared to House Democrats (tied with 1 other)Of the 201 bills that Adams cosponsored, 22% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (69th percentile); House Sophomores (63rd percentile); House Democrats (21st percentile); All Representatives (56th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Cosponsored the 49th fewest bills compared to House Democrats (tied with 1 other)Adams cosponsored 201 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 North Carolina Delegation (62nd percentile); House Sophomores (58th percentile); House Democrats (24th percentile); All Representatives (57th percentile). |
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Laws EnactedAdams introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2017. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (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. |
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Bills IntroducedAdams introduced 10 bills and resolutions in 2017. View Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (31st percentile); House Sophomores (44th percentile); House Democrats (38th percentile); All Representatives (41st percentile). |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Adams introduced 0 bills in 2017 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsAdams 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 Adams’s Profile » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (46th percentile); House Sophomores (45th percentile); House Democrats (40th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Leadership ScoreOur 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 2017 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Adams’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (54th percentile); House Sophomores (53rd percentile); House Democrats (58th percentile); All Representatives (50th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Adams supported any of 21 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Adams 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Adams cosponsored H.Res. 630: Requiring each Member, officer, and … Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (38th percentile); House Sophomores (23rd percentile); House Democrats (18th percentile); All Representatives (28th 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 2017) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
