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Rep. Byron Donalds’s 2022 Report Card

Representative from Florida's 19th District
Republican
Serving Jan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2025

These statistics cover Donalds’s record during the 117th Congress (Jan 3, 2021-Jan 3, 2023) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Feb 12, 2023.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Donalds’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Was 6th most absent in votes compared to House Freshmen

Donalds missed 3.2% of votes (32 of 998 votes) in the 117th Congress. View Donalds’s Profile »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (80th percentile); House Freshmen (92nd percentile); All Representatives (85th percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.
 

Introduced the 7th most bills compared to House Freshmen

Donalds introduced 34 bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress. View Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (88th percentile); House Freshmen (90th percentile); House Republicans (86th percentile); All Representatives (76th percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 10th most bills compared to House Freshmen (tied with 2 others)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 10 of Donalds’s 34 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Donalds caucused with in the 117th Congress.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (56th percentile); House Freshmen (83rd percentile); House Republicans (77th percentile); All Representatives (57th percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
 

Ranked 14th most politically right compared to All Representatives

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Donalds’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (88th percentile); House Freshmen (93rd percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile).

 

Cosponsored the 25th most bills compared to House Republicans

Donalds cosponsored 423 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (60th percentile); House Freshmen (74th percentile); House Republicans (88th percentile); All Representatives (63rd percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 48th least often compared to House Republicans

Of the 423 bills that Donalds cosponsored, 15% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (40th percentile); House Freshmen (48th percentile); House Republicans (22nd percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Laws Enacted

Donalds introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 117th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Donalds introduced 1 bill in the 117th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.R. 4513: Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements …

Compare to all Florida Delegation (12th percentile); House Freshmen (18th percentile); House Republicans (24th percentile); All Representatives (13th percentile).

 

Powerful Cosponsors

3 of Donalds’s bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: H.Res. 748: Honoring the life and the …; H.Res. 1311: Expressing the sense of the …; H.R. 4513: Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements …

Compare to all Florida Delegation (48th percentile); House Freshmen (53rd percentile); House Republicans (56th percentile); All Representatives (41st percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 4 of Donalds’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.R. 4132: Unnecessary Agency Regulations Reduction Act …; H.R. 6409: Repeal CFPB Act; H.R. 7860: Financial Freedom Act of 2022; H.R. 8562: Defense Production Oversight Act of …

Compare to all Florida Delegation (56th percentile); House Freshmen (67th percentile); House Republicans (67th percentile); All Representatives (48th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Committee Positions

Donalds held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Donalds’s Profile »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Cosponsors

Donalds’s bills and resolutions had 203 cosponsors in the 117th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (32nd percentile); House Freshmen (54th percentile); House Republicans (55th percentile); All Representatives (37th percentile).

 

Leadership Score

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Donalds’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (28th percentile); House Freshmen (47th percentile); House Republicans (47th percentile); All Representatives (30th percentile).

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 117th Congress) was the 117th Congress (freshmen) or 116th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.