Bishop is the representative for North Carolina’s 9th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Sep 17, 2019. Bishop is next up for reelection in 2020 and serves until Jan 3, 2021.
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![Photo of Rep. Dan Bishop [R-NC9]](/static/legislator-photos/412844-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2019 Report Card for Bishop.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Bishop 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 Bishop has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Oct 16, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Dan Bishop sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Bishop sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Recent Bills
Some of Bishop’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8199: 504 Credit Risk Management Improvement Act of 2020
- H.R. 8182: CHOICE Act
- H.R. 8120: Increasing Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2020
- H.R. 7619: Expanding Assistance to Farmers Act of 2020
- H.R. 7503: No RIOT Act of 2020
- H.R. 7285: CHOPping Cash for CHAZ Act of 2020
- H.R. 6336: Increasing Hospital Capacity to Fight the Coronavirus Act of 2020
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Sep 2019 to Oct 2020, Bishop missed 35 of 388 roll call votes, which is 9.0%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% 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.
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 Dan Bishop for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
