Rep. Claudia Tenney
Representative for New York’s 24th District
pronounced KLAW-dee-uh // TEH-nee
Tenney is the representative for New York’s 24th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. She has served since Jan 3, 2023. Tenney is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 62 years old.
She was previously the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 2021 to 2022; and the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 2017 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. Claudia Tenney [R-NY24]](/static/legislator-photos/412720-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Tenney proposed $48 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $6 million to Genesee County for “Genesee County Water Security and Resiliency – Prole Road Transmission Main”
- $6 million to City of Canandaigua for “Canandaigua Water Plant”
- $6 million to Development Authority of the North Country for “Phase I Army Water Line (AWL) Pipeline Replacement Project”
View all requests and justifications on Tenney’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Tenney.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Tenney 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 Tenney has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 30, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Claudia Tenney sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Tenney sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (23%) Taxation (21%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Labor and Employment (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Health (7%) Transportation and Public Works (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Tenney recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5820: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the energy credit …
- H.R. 5580: Saving Our Mainstreet American Locations for Leisure and Shopping Act of 2023
- H.R. 5417: SEVER Act
- H.R. 5318: Remembering Our Local Heroes Act
- H.R. 5264: Local Law Enforcement Protection Act
- H.R. 5179: Anti-BDS Labeling Act
- H.R. 5161: Protecting Hunting and Archery in Schools Act of 2023
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2017 to Oct 2023, Tenney missed 12 of 2,692 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 1.7% 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
- Office of Claudia Tenney for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
