Rep. Chellie Pingree

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Pingree.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Pingree is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Pingree has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 13, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Chellie Pingree sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
  • Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
  • Member, Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Member, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research
  • Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Pingree sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (28%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Health (16%) Social Sciences and History (6%) Immigration (6%) Environmental Protection (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Pingree’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 4158: CURE High Drug Prices Act
• H.R. 3981: Food Date Labeling Act of 2019
• H.R. 3596: Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act
• H.R. 3220: Kids Eat Local Act
• H.R. 3212: Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of ...
• H.R. 2813: Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019
• H.Res. 312: Expressing support for designation of the weeks of April 14, 2019, through April ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Sep 2019, Pingree missed 215 of 7,530 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills