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 Mar 26, 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 3 bills that were enacted:

• S. 3514: GREEN Vehicles at Airports Act
• S. 3511: Drone Safety Enhancement Act
• S. 3327: SENIOR Communities Protection Act

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Does 3 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:

Transportation and Public Works (17%) Taxation (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Commerce (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 3580: A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit ...
• S. 3581: A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit ...
• S. 3492: A bill to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land ...
• S. 3434: COPS Counseling Act
• S. 3413: AIR Safety Act of 2020
• S. 3367: Diversity in Corporate Leadership Act of 2020
• S. 3289: Small Business Innovation Voucher Act of 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Mar 2020, Cortez Masto missed 13 of 1,107 roll call votes, which is 1.2%. This is on par with the median of 1.4% 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