Rep. Bill Flores

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 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 Dec 4, 2019. 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
  • Member, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
  • Member, Subcommittee on Energy
  • Member, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change

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 (36%) Energy (18%) Taxation (12%) Environmental Protection (12%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Government Operations and Politics (6%) Economics and Public Finance (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• 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 ...
• H.R. 3983: Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act
• H.R. 3985: Every New Heart Deserves a Chance Act of 2019
• H.R. 3984: Health Care Safety Net Enhancement Act of 2019
• H.R. 3982: STEWARD Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Dec 2019, Flores missed 153 of 5,996 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is on par with 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.

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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