![Photo of Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL17]](/static/legislator-photos/412537-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Bustos 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 Bustos has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 21, 2021. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Enacted Legislation
Bustos was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 5123 (116th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 476 East Main Street in Galesburg, Illinois, as the “Senior Airman Daniel Miller Post Office ...
- H.R. 5737 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 108 West D Street in Alpha, Illinois, as the “Captain Joshua E. Steele Post Office”.
- H.R. 2673 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 Broadway Street in Pekin, Illinois, as the “Lance Corporal Jordan S. Bastean Post Office”.
- H.R. 5688 (115th): Navigation Workers Protection Act of 2018
- H.R. 2672 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the “Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office”.
- H.R. 4046 (115th): Department of Defense Check Before You Rent Act
- H.R. 4047 (115th): Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act of 2017
Does 9 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Bustos sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (20%) Health (15%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Environmental Protection (10%) Law (8%) Social Welfare (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Bustos’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 51: Expressing deep gratitude on behalf of the people of the United States to ...
- H.R. 324: To specify the Federal share of the costs of certain duty of the ...
- H.Res. 1262 (116th): Thanking all election officials and workers for the tireless energy and sacrifice ...
- H.R. 8759 (116th): Streamlining Advanced Biofuels Registration Act of 2020
- H.R. 8371 (116th): Next Generation Fuels Act of 2020
- H.R. 8091 (116th): UNITED Act
- H.R. 7769 (116th): RETAIN Act
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Jan 2021, Bustos missed 46 of 4,711 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than 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.
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
