Stewart is the representative for Utah’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Stewart is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 62 years old.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Stewart was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Stewart voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT2]](/static/legislator-photos/412581-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Stewart.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Stewart 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 Stewart has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 17, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Chris Stewart sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Stewart was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 4194 (116th): National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2019
- H.R. 418 (116th): Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act
- H.R. 754 (115th): Anwar Sadat Centennial Celebration Act
- H.R. 2345 (115th): National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018
- H.R. 3543 (115th): Sage-Grouse and Mule Deer Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act of 2017
Does 5 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
Stewart sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (33%) International Affairs (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Health (9%) Agriculture and Food (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Stewart recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1373: SAFE Laboratories Act
- H.R. 822: Student Mental Health Helpline Act
- H.R. 821: Social Media Child Protection Act
- H.R. 439: Public Land Search and Rescue Act
- H.R. 438: True Cost Act
- H.R. 364: Daylight Act
- H.R. 365: To release the reversionary interest of the United States in certain non-Federal land …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Mar 2023, Stewart missed 130 of 5,834 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% 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, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
