Rep. Bill Flores

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Flores.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Flores 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 Flores has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 9, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Bill Flores sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Budget
• House Committee on Energy and Commerce
  Communications and Technology, Energy, Environment and Climate Change subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Flores was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 3900: Youth Empowerment Act of 2017
• H.R. 4199 (113th): To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, Texas, as the “Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center”.

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Does 2 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

Flores sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (38%) Energy (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Taxation (12%) Environmental Protection (9%) Economics and Public Finance (6%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 7401: To provide for Federal and State agency coordination in the approval of certain ...
• H.R. 7349: To require the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide ...
• H.R. 6885: Safe and Secure Medicine Supply for Hardworking Americans Act of 2020
• H.R. 5365: License Transfer Modernization Act of 2019
• H.R. 4940: Texas Ranger Division’s 200th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act
• H.R. 4690: 21st Century Transportation Fuels Act
• H.Res. 575: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all stakeholders in the ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Jul 2020, Flores missed 163 of 6,184 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. 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