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Rep. Daniel Lipinski’s 2015 Report Card

Representative from Illinois's 3rd District
Democrat
Served Jan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2021

These year-end statistics cover Lipinski’s record during the 2015 legislative year (Jan 6, 2015-Dec 31, 2015) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 9, 2016.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Lipinski’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Got influential cosponsors the 2nd most often compared to Illinois Delegation (tied with 1 other)

4 of Lipinski’s bills and resolutions in 2015 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: H.R. 1156: International Science and Technology Cooperation …; H.R. 2172: To establish a pilot toll …; H.R. 2451: Buy America Update Act; H.R. 2886: Future Transportation Research and Innovation …

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (83rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (69th percentile); House Democrats (78th percentile); Safe House Seats (75th percentile); All Representatives (76th percentile).

 

Introduced the 3rd most bills compared to Illinois Delegation

Lipinski introduced 16 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (83rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (70th percentile); House Democrats (78th percentile); Safe House Seats (78th percentile); All Representatives (79th percentile).

 

Ranked 5th most politically right compared to House Democrats

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2015 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Lipinski’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (53rd percentile); House Democrats (97th percentile); Safe House Seats (46th percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 7th most often compared to All Representatives

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 224 bills that Lipinski cosponsored, 58% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (98th percentile); House Democrats (96th percentile); Safe House Seats (99th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Laws Enacted

Lipinski introduced 0 bills that became law in 2015. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively.
 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Lipinski introduced 1 bill in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.R. 1156: International Science and Technology Cooperation …

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (61st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (45th percentile); House Democrats (66th percentile); Safe House Seats (45th percentile); All Representatives (46th percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 0 of Lipinski’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Writing Bipartisan Bills

Lipinski tends to gather cosponsors only on one side of the aisle. 38% of Lipinski’s 16 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2015.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (44th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (60th percentile); House Democrats (70th percentile); Safe House Seats (55th percentile); All Representatives (52nd percentile).

Only Members of Congress who sponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Committee Positions

Lipinski held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Lipinski’s Profile »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (17th percentile); House Democrats (38th percentile); Safe House Seats (36th percentile); All Representatives (38th percentile).

 

Bills Cosponsored

Lipinski cosponsored 224 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (61st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (69th percentile); House Democrats (49th percentile); Safe House Seats (71st percentile); All Representatives (72nd percentile).

 

Cosponsors

Lipinski’s bills and resolutions had 111 cosponsors in 2015. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (39th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (38th percentile); House Democrats (44th percentile); Safe House Seats (44th percentile); All Representatives (45th percentile).

 

Leadership Score

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2015 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Lipinski’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (39th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (43rd percentile); House Democrats (57th percentile); Safe House Seats (44th percentile); All Representatives (46th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Lipinski missed 3.6% of votes (25 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Lipinski’s Profile »

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (61st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (67th percentile); Safe House Seats (72nd percentile); All Representatives (74th percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.
 

Government Transparency

GovTrack looked at whether Lipinski supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Lipinski 2 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Lipinski cosponsored H.R. 430: DISCLOSE 2015 Act; H.R. 653: FOIA Act

Compare to all Illinois Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (59th percentile); House Democrats (31st percentile); Safe House Seats (62nd percentile); All Representatives (65th percentile).

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2015) was the 114th Congress (freshmen) or 113th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.