Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Huizenga has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Huizenga is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Huizenga for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Bill Huizenga sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Huizenga sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (29%) Finance and Financial Sector (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Taxation (10%) Housing and Community Development (10%) Health (7%) Emergency Management (5%) Environmental Protection (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Huizenga’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6050: National Debt and Taxation Transparency Act of 2016
- H.R. 5711: To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from authorizing certain transactions by a ...
- H.R. 4836: To require the United States to oppose the provision by the International Monetary ...
- H.R. 4671: Small Business Protection Act of 2016
- H.R. 3189: Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization Act of 2015
- H.R. 2109: Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act
- H.R. 1699: Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 2015
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Voting Record
From Jan 2011 to Sep 2016, Huizenga missed 84 of 4,076 roll call votes, which is 2.1%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 33 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills