Rep. David Joyce’s 2022 Report Card
Representative
from Ohio's 14th District
Republican
Serving Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Joyce’s record during the 117th Congress (Jan 3, 2021-Jan 3, 2023) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Feb 12, 2023.
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 most bills compared to Ohio DelegationJoyce introduced 36 bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (77th percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); All Representatives (79th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 2nd most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 1 other)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 28 of Joyce’s 36 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Joyce caucused with in the 117th Congress. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (95th percentile); House Republicans (99th percentile); All Representatives (96th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Got influential cosponsors the 3rd most often compared to Ohio Delegation4 of Joyce’s bills and resolutions in the 117th 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. 5274: PREVENT ACT of 2021; H.R. 5521: Rural Capital Access Act; H.R. 7746: Sgt. Wolf Kyle Weninger Veterans …; H.R. 9230: SECURE Act Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (49th percentile); House Republicans (69th percentile); All Representatives (56th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 4th most bills compared to Ohio DelegationJoyce cosponsored 328 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 (75th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (45th percentile); House Republicans (72nd percentile); All Representatives (47th percentile). |
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Got the 4th most cosponsors on their bills compared to Ohio DelegationJoyce’s bills and resolutions had 251 cosponsors in the 117th 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 (75th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (39th percentile); House Republicans (62nd percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 5th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 4 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 654: Drug-Free Communities Pandemic Relief Act; H.R. 2146: Military Family Violence Prevention Act; H.R. 5352: Military Suicide Prevention in the …; H.R. 5521: Rural Capital Access Act; H.R. 7513: PREPARE Act of 2022; H.R. 8058: Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act …; H.R. 8785: Lake Erie Water Quality Protection …; H.R. 8965: Aquatic Invasive Species Control Act; H.R. 9340: United States Foundation for International …; H.R. 9352: To improve services for trafficking …; H.J.Res. 81: Providing for congressional disapproval under … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (88th percentile); House Republicans (96th percentile); All Representatives (90th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Wrote the 8th most laws compared to House Republicans (tied with 8 others)Joyce introduced 3 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 117th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 654: Drug-Free Communities Pandemic Relief Act; H.R. 6735: SANE Act; H.R. 7746: Sgt. Wolf Kyle Weninger Veterans … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (76th percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (80th 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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Joined bipartisan bills the 17th most often compared to All RepresentativesIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 328 bills that Joyce cosponsored, 48% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (96th percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (96th 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 23rd most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 17 others)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Joyce introduced 4 bills in the 117th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 654: Drug-Free Communities Pandemic Relief Act; H.R. 5274: PREVENT ACT of 2021; H.R. 6735: SANE Act; H.R. 7746: Sgt. Wolf Kyle Weninger Veterans … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (62nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (51st percentile); House Republicans (81st percentile); All Representatives (58th percentile). |
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Ranked 55th most politically left compared to House RepublicansOur 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 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Joyce’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); House Republicans (25th percentile); All Representatives (63rd percentile). |
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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 (38th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (26th percentile); House Republicans (47th percentile); All Representatives (43rd 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 117th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Joyce’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (69th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (34th percentile); House Republicans (58th percentile); All Representatives (38th percentile). |
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Missed VotesJoyce missed 1.1% of votes (11 of 998 votes) in the 117th Congress. View Joyce’s Profile » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (50th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (46th percentile); All Representatives (51st 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 117th Congress) was the 117th Congress (freshmen) or 116th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
