Rep. Bruce Westerman

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 18, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Bruce Westerman sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Water Resources and Environment subcommittee Ranking Member

  Highways and Transit subcommittees
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  Energy and Mineral Resources, National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Westerman was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 5923 (115th): Walnut Grove Land Exchange Act
• 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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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

Westerman sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (28%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Health (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Education (8%) Government Operations and Politics (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5859: Trillion Trees Act
• H.R. 5497: Conditional Approval Act
• H.Res. 653: Calling on Congress, schools, and State and local educational agencies to recognize the ...
• H.R. 2607: Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2019
• H.R. 2200: Keeping Our Promises Act
• H.R. 2201: To modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to ...
• H.R. 1951: To amend title 18, United States Code, to authorize a court to reduce ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Feb 2020, Westerman missed 23 of 3,306 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better than the median of 2.2% 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