![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 liberal–conservative 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 Jan 17, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Ben McAdams sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
McAdams sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Energy (50%) Finance and Financial Sector (50%)
Recent Bills
Some of McAdams’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- 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
- H.R. 4364: Taxpayer Fairness for Resource Development Act of 2019
- H.R. 4083: FINISH Act
- H.R. 3886: Fostering Innovation Act of 2019
- H.R. 3597: Solar Energy Research and Development Act of 2019
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Jan 2020, McAdams missed 2 of 723 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 2.1% 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
