Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 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 Dec 5, 2019. 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
  • Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Economic Policy
  • Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
  • Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Water and Power
  • Member, Subcommittee on Energy
  • Member, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
• Senate Committee on Finance
  • Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
  • Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
  • Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy
• 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:

Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Transportation and Public Works (16%) Taxation (16%) Finance and Financial Sector (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Commerce (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Housing and Community Development (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 2978: A bill to ensure consideration of water intensity in the Department of Energy’s ...
• S. 2904: IOGAN Act
• S. 2890: Douglas County Economic Development and Conservation Act
• S. 2804: Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act
• S. 2746: Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
• S. 2648: Rural ACO Improvement Act
• S. 2627: End Double Taxation of Successful Civil Claims Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Dec 2019, Cortez Masto missed 13 of 984 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% 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