Rep. Clay Higgins

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Higgins.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Higgins 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 Higgins has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 20, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Clay Higgins sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Homeland Security
  • Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations
  • Member, Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • Member, Subcommittee on National Security

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Higgins sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (22%) Immigration (19%) Education (16%) Energy (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Taxation (6%) Emergency Management (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4314: To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense ...
• H.R. 3719: CTPAT Reauthorization Act of 2019
• H.R. 3358: Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies Act
• H.R. 3273: Combating Transnational Criminal Organizations Act of 2019
• H.R. 3067: Maximum Incarceration for Terrorists Act
• H.R. 2248: LNG Now Act of 2019
• H.R. 1729: OBIM Authorization Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Sep 2019, Higgins missed 94 of 1,750 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is much worse 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.

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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
• Office of Clay Higgins for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills