Rep. Chellie Pingree

Analysis

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 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 3, 2017 to Nov 29, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Chellie Pingree sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittee Chair

  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies subcommittees
• House Committee on Agriculture
  Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, Conservation and Forestry subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Pingree was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 4372: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022

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Does 1 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

Pingree sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (46%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Immigration (9%) Education (7%) Health (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pingree recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 9346: Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2022
• H.R. 9186: Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act
• H.R. 8262: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023
• H.R. 8018: Healthy H2O Act
• H.R. 7970: Ocean Regional Opportunity and Innovation Act of 2022
• H.Res. 1046: Expressing support for the designation of the weeks of April 10, 2022, through …
• H.R. 6693: Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2022

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Nov 2022, Pingree missed 226 of 8,877 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% 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