Rep. Cori Bush

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bush 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 Bush has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Jun 24, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Cori Bush sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Judiciary
  Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittees
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Economic and Consumer Policy, Environment subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Bush sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (33%) Health (22%) Housing and Community Development (22%) Energy (22%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bush recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7879: To require the Comptroller General of the United States to study radiological contamination …
• H.R. 7439: Energy Security and Independence Act of 2022
• H.R. 5307: Keeping Renters Safe Act of 2021
• H.R. 5269: ERAP Improvement Act of 2021
• H.Res. 568: Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis …
• H.R. 4194: The People’s Response Act
• H.Res. 457: Expressing that the United States must establish electricity as a basic human right …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Jun 2022, Bush missed 6 of 748 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than the median of 2.1% 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 Rep. Bush for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills