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Rep. David Jolly’s 2015 Report Card

Representative from Florida's 13th District
Republican
Served Mar 11, 2014 – Jan 3, 2017

These year-end statistics cover Jolly’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 Jolly’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 bipartisan cosponsors on the 3rd lowest % of bills compared to Competitive House Seats

Jolly tends to gather cosponsors only on one side of the aisle. 25% of Jolly’s 20 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2015.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (14th percentile); Competitive House Seats (10th percentile); House Sophomores (25th percentile); House Republicans (19th percentile); All Representatives (29th percentile).

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

Introduced the 4th most bills compared to Competitive House Seats

Jolly introduced 20 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (78th percentile); Competitive House Seats (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (92nd percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); All Representatives (87th percentile).

 

Ranked 7th most politically right compared to Competitive House Seats

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 Jolly’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (81st percentile); Competitive House Seats (87th percentile); House Sophomores (74th percentile); House Republicans (61st percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile).

 

Got bicameral support on the 7th most bills compared to Competitive House Seats (tied with 7 others)

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 3 of Jolly’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.

Those bills were: H.R. 938: Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act …; H.R. 3301: To prohibit Federal funding of …; H.R. 3491: To amend title 38, United …

Compare to all Florida Delegation (67th percentile); Competitive House Seats (75th percentile); House Sophomores (67th percentile); House Republicans (71st percentile); All Representatives (71st percentile).

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

Ranked the 11th top leader compared to Competitive House Seats

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 Jolly’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (59th percentile); Competitive House Seats (80th percentile); House Sophomores (79th percentile); House Republicans (59th percentile); All Representatives (70th percentile).

 

Cosponsored the 19th most bills compared to House Republicans

Jolly cosponsored 239 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 Florida Delegation (74th percentile); Competitive House Seats (82nd percentile); House Sophomores (71st percentile); House Republicans (92nd percentile); All Representatives (76th percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 26th most often compared to House Republicans

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 239 bills that Jolly cosponsored, 21% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (48th percentile); Competitive House Seats (47th percentile); House Sophomores (47th percentile); House Republicans (89th percentile); All Representatives (57th percentile).

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

Laws Enacted

Jolly 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 Florida Delegation (0th percentile); Competitive House Seats (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (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. Jolly introduced 0 bills in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); Competitive House Seats (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Powerful Cosponsors

0 of Jolly’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.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); Competitive House Seats (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Committee Positions

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

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); Competitive House Seats (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Cosponsors

Jolly’s bills and resolutions had 164 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 Florida Delegation (41st percentile); Competitive House Seats (67th percentile); House Sophomores (59th percentile); House Republicans (60th percentile); All Representatives (58th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Jolly missed 1.4% of votes (10 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Jolly’s Profile »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (26th percentile); Competitive House Seats (49th percentile); House Sophomores (47th percentile); All Representatives (42nd 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 Jolly supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Jolly 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); Competitive House Seats (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th 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.