Rep. Anthony Brown

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Brown.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Brown 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 Brown has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 16, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Anthony Brown sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services Vice Chair
  Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittees
• House Committee on Ethics
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  Energy and Mineral Resources, Water, Oceans, and Wildlife subcommittees
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  Aviation, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, Highways and Transit subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Brown was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 3177: National Defense Accelerator Network Act of 2019
• H.R. 3176: To direct the Secretary of Defense to modify the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) to be machine readable and electronically transferable.
• H.R. 3087: To make improvements to the Mentor-Protégé Program of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 2756: Developing the National Security Workforce Act
• H.R. 4890 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9801 Apollo Drive in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, as the “Wayne K. Curry Post Office Building”.

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Does 5 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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

Brown sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (42%) Transportation and Public Works (13%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) International Affairs (8%) Taxation (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 8185: Congressional Oversight of Labor Categories in Defense Contracting Act of 2020
• H.R. 8184: CATRA Act of 2020
• H.R. 8186: AFRICA Act of 2020
• H.R. 8183: ADAPT Act
• H.R. 8099: Diversity in Defense Act of 2020
• H.R. 7897: BIAS Act of 2020
• H.R. 7500: Limit on the Expansion of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Sep 2020, Brown missed 62 of 2,106 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is on par with 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
• Wikipedia entry on Anthony Brown for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills