Rep. Cheri Bustos

Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Bustos has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into her position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Bustos is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Committee Membership

Cheri Bustos sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
  • Member, Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
  • Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

Bills Sponsored

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

• H.R. 1064: To reinstate year-round Federal Pell Grants under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
• H.R. 916: All-American Flag Act
• H.R. 586: Government Waste Reduction Act of 2015
• H.R. 5700: To designate the community based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs ...
• H.R. 4992: Refueling Assistance Act of 2014
• H.R. 4235: Taylor Morris Act
• H.R. 3649: Jobs for Heroes Act

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Voting Record

From Jan 2013 to Feb 2015, Bustos missed 23 of 1,310 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills