Bill Posey, Representative for Florida's 8th Congressional District

Posey is the representative for Florida’s 8^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Posey is next up for reelection in 2018.

He was previously the representative for Florida’s 15^th congressional district as a Republican from 2009 to 2012.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Posey.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Posey 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 Posey has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

NumbersUSA: 99% Americans for Prosperity: 98% FreedomWorks: 85% The Club for Growth: 84% United States Chamber of Commerce: 77% American Civil Liberties Union: 17% NIAC Action: D The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D League of Conservation Voters: 6% Human Rights Campaign: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Bill Posey sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
- Member, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Environment
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight
- Member, Subcommittee on Space

Enacted Legislation

Posey was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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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 about one third or more 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

Posey sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (24%) Finance and Financial Sector (22%) Health (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%) Law (6%) Immigration (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Posey’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 1039: Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017 May 19, 2017. Passed 229/177. H.R. 1039 amends the federal criminal code to authorize a probation officer to arrest a person, without warrant, if there is probable cause to believe that person forcibly assaulted or obstructed a probation officer while performing their official duties. The bill also would direct the ...
Not Voting	S. 612: A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the “George P. Kazen Federal Building ... Dec 8, 2016. Passed 360/61.
No	H.R. 3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Jul 15, 2015. Passed 312/119.
No	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
Nay	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...
Nay	H.R. 83 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 Dec 11, 2014. Passed 219/206. This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December 11, 2014 and by the Senate on December 13, 2014. The bill was originally introduced on January 3, 2013 by ...
No	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Yea	S. 1603 (113th): Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act Sep 16, 2014. Passed 359/64.
No	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and ...
Yea	S. 3729 (111th): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 Sep 29, 2010. Passed 304/118.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Apr 2018, Posey missed 140 of 6,647 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. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2009 Jan-Mar	174	2	1.1%	36^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	5	1.7%	41^st
2009 Jul-Sep	268	1	0.4%	13^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	3	1.2%	27^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	1	0.5%	13^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	2	0.9%	21^st
2010 Jul-Sep	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	45^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	1	0.4%	18^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	3	1.2%	43^rd
2011 Oct-Dec	208	2	1.0%	37^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	1	0.7%	32^nd
2012 Nov-Dec	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	2	1.0%	42^nd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	2	1.4%	40^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	1	0.5%	24^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	3	2.1%	50^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	1	0.7%	34^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	2	1.1%	52^nd
2016 Jan-Mar	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	1	2.1%	61^st
2017 Jan-Mar	208	1	0.5%	23^rd
2017 Apr-Jun	136	2	1.5%	45^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	74	37.2%	98^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	15	9.0%	89^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	13	10.1%	86^th
2018 Apr-Apr	18	0	0.0%	0^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Bill Posey is pronounced:

bil // POH-zee

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
EE ee	meet
I i	pin
L l	leg
OH oh	most
P p	pen
Z z	zebra

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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