McAdams is the representative for Utah’s 4th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. McAdams is next up for reelection in 2020 and serves until Jan 3, 2021.
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![Photo of Rep. Ben McAdams [D-UT4]](/static/legislator-photos/412829-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2019 Report Card for McAdams.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
McAdams 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 McAdams has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Oct 27, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Ben McAdams sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
McAdams was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
McAdams sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Energy (33%) Finance and Financial Sector (33%) Environmental Protection (33%)
Recent Bills
Some of McAdams’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8173: VA High Altitude and Suicide Research Act
- H.R. 7592: STIFLE Act of 2020
- H.R. 6057: Stop the Spread of Invasive Mussels Act of 2020
- H.R. 5903: TRAIN Act
- H.R. 4704: Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act
- H.R. 4656: Background Ozone Research Act
- H.R. 4344: Investor Protection and Capital Markets Fairness Act
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Oct 2020, McAdams missed 2 of 919 roll call votes, which is 0.2%. This is better than the median of 2.3% 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.
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 the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
