Rep. David Joyce’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Ohio's 14th District
Republican
Serving Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Joyce’s record during the 115th Congress (Jan 3, 2017-Jan 3, 2019) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 20, 2019.
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 Joyce’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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Introduced the 5th fewest bills compared to Ohio DelegationJoyce introduced 12 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (25th percentile); House Republicans (28th percentile); All Representatives (26th percentile). |
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Supported government transparency the 4th least often compared to Ohio Delegation (tied with 2 others)GovTrack looked at whether Joyce supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Joyce 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Joyce cosponsored H.R. 24: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (19th percentile); House Republicans (21st percentile); All Representatives (19th percentile). |
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Got influential cosponsors the 5th least often compared to Ohio Delegation (tied with 4 others)2 of Joyce’s bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress 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. 664: STOP OD Act of 2017; H.R. 959: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (25th percentile); House Republicans (29th percentile); All Representatives (26th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 26th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 13 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.Res. 909: Expressing the sense of the …; H.Res. 1022: Condemning the ongoing illegal occupation …; H.R. 959: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization …; H.R. 5052: Safe Staffing for Nurse and …; H.R. 6043: STATES Act Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); House Republicans (84th percentile); All Representatives (80th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 43rd most often compared to House RepublicansIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 245 bills that Joyce cosponsored, 22% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (73rd percentile); House Republicans (82nd percentile); All Representatives (56th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Got their bills out of committee the 61st least often compared to All Representatives (tied with 58 others)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Joyce introduced 1 bill in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 959: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (25th percentile); House Republicans (3rd percentile); All Representatives (14th percentile). |
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Laws EnactedJoyce introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 115th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Writing Bipartisan BillsIn this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 9 of Joyce’s 12 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Joyce caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (55th percentile); All Representatives (58th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Committee PositionsJoyce 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 Joyce’s Profile » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (50th percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Bills CosponsoredJoyce cosponsored 245 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 Ohio Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (67th percentile); All Representatives (41st percentile). |
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CosponsorsJoyce’s bills and resolutions had 252 cosponsors in the 115th Congress. 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 Ohio Delegation (56th percentile); House Republicans (63rd percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile). |
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Ideology ScoreOur 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 the 115th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Joyce’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (66th percentile). |
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Leadership ScoreOur 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 the 115th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Joyce’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (44th percentile); House Republicans (45th percentile); All Representatives (50th percentile). |
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Missed VotesJoyce missed 2.1% of votes (26 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Joyce’s Profile » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (50th 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. |
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 the 115th Congress) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
