Rep. Byron Donalds

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Donalds 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Donalds has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to May 24, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Byron Donalds sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Budget
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Economic and Consumer Policy subcommittees
• House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth
• House Committee on Small Business
  Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access, Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Donalds sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (33%) Emergency Management (22%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (22%) Government Operations and Politics (22%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Donalds recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7860: Financial Freedom Act of 2022
• H.R. 7741: To prevent the Federal Government from using taxpayer funds to distribute cellular devices …
• H.R. 7207: Prohibit Venezuelan Oil Importation Act
• H.R. 7206: Protecting Communities from Harmful Algal Blooms Act
• H.Res. 953: Honoring the first responders who acted swiftly on Sunday, January 16, 2022, to …
• H.R. 6409: Repeal CFPB Act
• H.R. 6217: Expanding Access to Affordable Credit for Small Businesses Act

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to May 2022, Donalds missed 21 of 681 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is worse 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.

Show the numbers...

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
• Office of Rep. Donalds for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills