Rep. Brian Higgins

District:: New York - District 26
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
2013-2015	Representative, New York's 26^th District
2005-2013	Representative, New York's 27^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Higgins is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. Higgins’s bills have had a total of 128 cosponsors in the 113^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Higgins to other members of the House of Representatives on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Brian Higgins sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
- Member, Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa
House Committee on Homeland Security
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
- Member, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications

Bills Sponsored

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Voting Record

From Jan 2005 to Apr 2014, Higgins missed 357 of 7,169 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is worse than 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 Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2005 Jan-Mar	90	4	4.4%	63^rd
2005 Apr-Jun	272	12	4.4%	71^st
2005 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	63^rd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	4	2.5%	47^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	1	1.2%	41^st
2006 Apr-Jun	276	8	2.9%	64^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	9	33.3%	96^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	13	6.1%	87^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	35	8.9%	92^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	30	9.5%	95^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	19	7.2%	82^nd
2008 Jan-Mar	149	4	2.7%	40^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	32	10.0%	88^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	1	0.5%	14^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	2	1.1%	35^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	11	3.6%	70^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	11	4.1%	79^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	10	4.1%	67^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	15	7.7%	83^rd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	21	9.6%	92^nd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	11	7.3%	86^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	1	1.0%	18^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	44^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	7	2.5%	68^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	4	1.6%	55^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	8	3.8%	69^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	1	0.7%	24^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	2	0.7%	34^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	4	2.6%	66^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	6	11.8%	85^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	11	5.1%	80^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	21	10.5%	91^st
2013 Oct-Dec	137	32	23.4%	98^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	22^nd
2014 Apr-Apr	29	0	0.0%	0^th