Angus King, Senator for Maine

King is the junior senator from Maine and is an Independent caucusing with the Democrats. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. King is next up for reelection in 2024.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

King is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 King has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 18, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% League of Conservation Voters: 95% Human Rights Campaign: 90% United States Chamber of Commerce: 51% NIAC Action: C The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C American Civil Liberties Union: 35% NumbersUSA: 14% Americans for Prosperity: 5% The Club for Growth: 5% FreedomWorks: 0%

Enacted Legislation

King was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

S. 715: Removing Outdated Restrictions to Allow for Job Growth Act

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

King sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Energy (25%) Agriculture and Food (15%) Taxation (15%) Health (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Education (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

King’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	On the Nomination PN1860: Michelle Bowman, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen ... Nov 15, 2018. Nomination Confirmed 64/34.
Nay	On the Nomination PN1620: Charles P. Rettig, of California, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the term expiring November 12, 2022 Sep 12, 2018. Nomination Confirmed 64/33.
Nay	On the Nomination PN372: Kevin Christopher Newsom, of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit Aug 1, 2017. Nomination Confirmed 66/31.
Nay	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Mar 30, 2017. Joint Resolution Passed 51/50. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Yea	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26. The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations bill which extended funding at the previous year's levels up to December 9, 2016 (10 weeks). After this, a continuing ...
Yea	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Yea	H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Dec 16, 2014. Bill Passed 76/16.
Nay	S. 2280 (113th): A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Nov 18, 2014. Bill Defeated 59/41.
Yea	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 18, 2014. Joint Resolution Passed 78/22.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Jan 2019, King missed 16 of 1,765 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is on par with the median of 1.2% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2013 Jan-Mar	92	2	2.2%	80^th
2013 Apr-Jun	76	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	43	1	2.3%	76^th
2013 Oct-Dec	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	1	1.1%	51^st
2014 Apr-Jun	123	1	0.8%	25^th
2014 Jul-Sep	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	10	19.2%	96^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	1	1.3%	47^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	53	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jul-Sep	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Oct-Dec	56	0	0.0%	0^th
2019 Jan-Jan	7	0	0.0%	0^th

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

Angus King is pronounced:

ANG-gus // king

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
G g	get
I i	pin
K k	king
NG ng	sing
S s	sit
U u	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Sen. Angus King

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