Rep. Chris Stewart

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Jul 31, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Chris Stewart sits on the following committees:

• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  • Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research subcommittee Ranking Member

  Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittees
• House Committee on Appropriations
  Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittees
• House Committee on the Budget

Enacted Legislation

Stewart was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 418: Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act
• H.R. 754 (115th): Anwar Sadat Centennial Celebration Act
• H.R. 2345: National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018
• H.R. 3543: Sage-Grouse and Mule Deer Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act of 2017

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Does 4 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

Stewart sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (48%) International Affairs (17%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Health (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 7815: To provide for the expansion of the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan, Washington ...
• H.R. 5619: Suicide Prevention Act
• H.R. 5490: To amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that ...
• H.R. 5445: Critical Infrastructure Act of 2019
• H.R. 5396: FISA Improvements Act of 2019
• H.R. 5331: Fairness for All Act
• H.R. 4194: National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Jul 2020, Stewart missed 110 of 4,618 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% 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