Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Aug 11, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Catherine Cortez Masto sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • Economic Policy subcommittee Ranking Member

  Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, Housing, Transportation, and Community Development subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Water and Power subcommittee Ranking Member

  Energy, Public Lands, Forests, and Mining subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Finance
  Health Care, International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness, Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
• Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Enacted Legislation

Cortez Masto was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• S. 2746: Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
• S. 3514: GREEN Vehicles at Airports Act
• S. 3511: Drone Safety Enhancement Act
• S. 3327: SENIOR Communities Protection Act

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Does 4 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

Cortez Masto sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Transportation and Public Works (15%) Taxation (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Finance and Financial Sector (12%) Commerce (10%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%) Health (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Cortez Masto’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• S. 4447: A bill to amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to temporarily modify ...
• S. 4416: A bill to provide funding for the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and ...
• S. 4366: A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to encourage ...
• S. 4299: A bill to provide grants for tourism and events support and promotion in ...
• S.Res. 657: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Black, indigenous, and people of ...
• S. 4099: No Nuclear Testing Without Approval Act
• S. 3975: Financial Compensation for CFPB Whistleblowers Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Aug 2020, Cortez Masto missed 13 of 1,184 roll call votes, which is 1.1%. 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.

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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
• Office of Senator Cortez Masto for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills