Bruce Westerman, Representative for Arkansas's 4th Congressional District

Westerman is the representative for Arkansas’s 4^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Westerman’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2019.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Westerman.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Americans for Prosperity: 98% FreedomWorks: 95% United States Chamber of Commerce: 88% The Club for Growth: 78% NumbersUSA: 75% NIAC Action: D The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D American Civil Liberties Union: 5% League of Conservation Voters: 1% Human Rights Campaign: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Bruce Westerman sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Natural Resources
- Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Member, Subcommittee on Federal Lands
House Committee on the Budget
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
- Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Member, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials

Enacted Legislation

Westerman was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 3931 (114th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 Central Avenue Suite 1A in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, as the “Chief Petty ...

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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 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

Westerman sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (38%) Health (23%) Science, Technology, Communications (23%) Government Operations and Politics (15%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Westerman’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	S. 1182: The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act Jul 25, 2018. Passed 366/52. The House Amendment to S. 1182 extends the National Flood Insurance Program, which is set to expire July 31, 2018, through November 30, 2018. This amendment does not include any reforms to the program; it is only a short-term extension. The NFIP was originally set ...
No	H.R. 1892: Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018; SUSTAIN Care Act of 2018; Honoring Hometown Heroes Act Feb 9, 2018. Passed 240/186. This bill became the vehicle for passage of funding for the federal government through March 23, 2018, to avert a government shutdown that would have occurred on February 9, 2018 had this bill not been enacted. The bill was introduced as the Honoring Hometown Heroes ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Feb 16, 2017. Passed 230/188. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Nay	H.R. 5602: To amend title 31, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to include all funds when issuing certain geographic targeting orders, and for ... Jul 11, 2016. Passed 356/47.
Aye	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. ...
Yea	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 ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Nov 2018, Westerman missed 11 of 2,455 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 2.4% 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
2015 Jan-Mar	144	1	0.7%	26^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	1	0.7%	34^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	2	1.5%	32^nd
2016 Apr-Jun	204	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	23^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	37^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	24^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	4	2.2%	45^th
2018 Jul-Sep	102	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Nov-Nov	5	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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Bruce Westerman is pronounced:

broos // WEST-er-min

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
E e	bed
ER er	her
I i	pin
M m	man
N n	not
OO oo	soon
R r	rag
S s	sit
T t	top
W w	will

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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