Rep. Betty McCollum

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for McCollum.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

McCollum 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 McCollum has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 6, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Betty McCollum sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittee Chair
  • Defense subcommittee Vice Chair

  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 3052: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
• H.R. 6856 (115th): PEPFAR and Protections for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Act of 2018
• H.R. 6185 (115th): Johnson-O’Malley Supplemental Indian Education Program Modernization Act
• H.R. 2751 (114th): Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act
• H.R. 6229 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2523 7th Avenue East in North Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the “Mayor William ‘Bill’ Sandberg ...

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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

McCollum sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (29%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (25%) International Affairs (17%) Native Americans (12%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Economics and Public Finance (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 6034: Hmong and Lao Refugee Deportation Prohibition Act of 2020
• H.Res. 861: Supporting the role of the United States in helping save the lives of ...
• H.R. 5790: Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act
• H.R. 5598: Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act
• H.Res. 775: Recognizing and honoring Smokey Bear’s 75 years of service to the United States ...
• H.R. 4705: Safe at Home Act
• H.R. 3052: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2001 to Jul 2020, McCollum missed 296 of 13,146 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills