Rep. Cathy Anne McMorris Rodgers’s 2020 Report Card
Representative
from Washington's 5th District
Republican
Serving Jan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover McMorris Rodgers’s record during the 116th Congress (Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2021) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 30, 2021.
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 McMorris Rodgers’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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Introduced the 3rd fewest bills compared to Washington DelegationMcMorris Rodgers introduced 15 bills and resolutions in the 116th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Washington Delegation (20th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (31st percentile); House Republicans (51st percentile); All Representatives (29th percentile). |
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Ranked the 3rd bottom/follower compared to Washington DelegationOur 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 116th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from McMorris Rodgers’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Washington Delegation (20th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (41st percentile); House Republicans (72nd percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 3rd fewest bills compared to Washington Delegation (tied with 2 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 3162: Broadband Data Improvement Act of …; H.R. 4779: To extend the Undertaking Spam, … Compare to all Washington Delegation (20th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (25th percentile); House Republicans (42nd percentile); All Representatives (25th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Ranked 18th most politically right compared to Serving 10+ YearsOur 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 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from McMorris Rodgers’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Washington Delegation (90th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (90th percentile); House Republicans (71st percentile); All Representatives (87th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 24th most bills compared to House RepublicansMcMorris Rodgers cosponsored 353 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 Washington Delegation (30th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (47th percentile); House Republicans (88th percentile); All Representatives (48th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 31st most often compared to All RepresentativesIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 353 bills that McMorris Rodgers cosponsored, 57% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Washington Delegation (80th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (92nd percentile); House Republicans (84th percentile); All Representatives (93rd percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Got influential cosponsors the 32nd most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 17 others)4 of McMorris Rodgers’s bills and resolutions in the 116th 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.R. 2771: Protecting HOME Act of 2019; H.R. 4779: To extend the Undertaking Spam, …; H.R. 8132: American COMPETE Act; H.R. 8244: Government Spectrum Valuation Act of … Compare to all Washington Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (43rd percentile); House Republicans (75th percentile); All Representatives (50th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 39th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 5 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 10 of McMorris Rodgers’s 15 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party McMorris Rodgers caucused with in the 116th Congress. Compare to all Washington Delegation (40th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (52nd percentile); House Republicans (78th percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Laws EnactedMcMorris Rodgers introduced 1 bill that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 116th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 4779: To extend the Undertaking Spam, … Compare to all Washington Delegation (40th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (38th percentile); House Republicans (51st percentile); All Representatives (37th 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. |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. McMorris Rodgers introduced 3 bills in the 116th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 4779: To extend the Undertaking Spam, …; H.R. 8132: American COMPETE Act; H.R. 8158: To amend title XVIII of … Compare to all Washington Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (45th percentile); House Republicans (74th percentile); All Representatives (47th percentile). |
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Committee PositionsMcMorris Rodgers held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View McMorris Rodgers’s Profile » Compare to all Washington Delegation (40th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (19th percentile); House Republicans (44th percentile); All Representatives (42nd percentile). |
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CosponsorsMcMorris Rodgers’s bills and resolutions had 228 cosponsors in the 116th 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 Washington Delegation (30th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (39th percentile); House Republicans (68th percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile). |
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Missed VotesMcMorris Rodgers missed 2.8% of votes (27 of 954 votes) in the 116th Congress. View McMorris Rodgers’s Profile » Compare to all Washington Delegation (70th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (55th percentile); All Representatives (61st 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. |
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 116th Congress) was the 116th Congress (freshmen) or 115th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
