Rep. Anthony Brown
Former Representative for Maryland’s 4th District
pronounced AN-thuh-nee // brown
Brown was the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 2017 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD4, 2017-2022]](/static/legislator-photos/412707-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Brown.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Brown is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Brown was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 6209 (117th): Military Justice Reporting Improvement Act
- H.R. 7157 (116th): FLIGHT Act
- H.R. 7125 (116th): ELITE Act of 2020
- H.R. 6574 (116th): PANORAMA Act of 2020
- H.R. 6146 (116th): OVERSEA Act of 2020
- H.R. 3177 (116th): National Defense Accelerator Network Act of 2019
- H.R. 3176 (116th): 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.
Does 10 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Brown sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (43%) Transportation and Public Works (17%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Taxation (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Brown recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7837 (117th): National Guard Promotion Improvement Act of 2022
- H.R. 7838 (117th): Paycheck Protection Program Fairness for Engineering Services Act
- H.R. 7445 (117th): Equal Justice Under Military Law Act
- H.R. 7448 (117th): STAR Act
- H.R. 7449 (117th): Digital Civil and Human Rights Act of 2022
- H.R. 7447 (117th): Modernizing Aeronautical Standards Act
- H.R. 7444 (117th): Diversity and Inclusion Transparency in the Defense Industrial Base Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2017 to Dec 2022, Brown missed 84 of 3,162 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
