Cortez Masto is the senior senator from Nevada and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2017. Cortez Masto is next up for reelection in 2022 and serves until Jan 3, 2023.
![Photo of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]](/static/legislator-photos/412681-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2020 Report Card for Cortez Masto.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cortez Masto is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Cortez Masto has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Nov 19, 2021. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Catherine Cortez Masto sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Cortez Masto was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 1502: COPS Counseling Act
- S. 3067: NEXT in Transportation Act
- S. 3066: Battery Material Processing and Component Manufacturing Act of 2021
- S. 768: Better PLAN Act
- S. 694: Renew America’s Schools Act of 2021
- S. 149: A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide Secretarial authority to temporarily waive or modify application of certain Medicare requirements with respect to …
- S. 2904 (116th): IOGAN Act
Does 13 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cortez Masto sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Transportation and Public Works (16%) Taxation (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Commerce (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Health (11%) Energy (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Cortez Masto’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 3247: A bill to extend certain expiring provisions of law relating to benefits provided …
- S. 3188: Manufactured Housing Community Improvement Grant Program Act
- S. 3077: Preserving Family Farms Act of 2021
- S. 3067: NEXT in Transportation Act
- S. 3065: DATA Privacy Act
- S. 3066: Battery Material Processing and Component Manufacturing Act of 2021
- S. 3015: National Science, Innovation, and Technology Strategy Act of 2021
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2017 to Nov 2021, Cortez Masto missed 15 of 1,790 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators 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.
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 Senator Cortez Masto for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
