Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Watson Coleman.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Watson Coleman 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 Watson Coleman has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 21, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Bonnie Watson Coleman sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies subcommittees
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  Oversight, Management, and Accountability, Transportation and Maritime Security subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Watson Coleman was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 6461: TSA National Deployment Force Act
• H.R. 2302 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 259 Nassau Street, Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the “Dr. John F. Nash, ...

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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

Watson Coleman sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (23%) Taxation (21%) Health (19%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%) Labor and Employment (6%) Emergency Management (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Watson Coleman’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 5533: For the relief of Yazmin Fabiola Juarez Coyoy.
• H.R. 5469: Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act of 2019
• H.Res. 747: Acknowledging that the War on Drugs has been a failed policy in achieving ...
• H.R. 5131: Stop Padding Presidential Pockets Act
• H.R. 4970: End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2019
• H.Res. 587: Recognizing LGBTQ+ suicide as a public health problem and expressing support for the ...
• H.Res. 570: Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Racial ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Jan 2020, Watson Coleman missed 43 of 3,258 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than 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