Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Wasserman Schultz.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Wasserman Schultz 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 Wasserman Schultz has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Jun 11, 2021. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Debbie Wasserman Schultz sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform

Enacted Legislation

Wasserman Schultz was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 7609 (116th): Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021
• H.R. 2745 (116th): Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
• H.R. 1846 (115th): PROTECT Our Children Act of 2017
• H.R. 5571 (114th): Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act
• H.R. 1998 (114th): HERO Act of 2015
• H.R. 5185 (113th): EARLY Act Reauthorization of 2014
• H.R. 2276 (112th): To require the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to conduct a study on effective ways to provide confirming genetic diagnostic test activity where ...

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Does 8 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Wasserman Schultz sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (24%) Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) International Affairs (15%) Housing and Community Development (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Immigration (9%) Environmental Protection (6%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Wasserman Schultz’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 3455: To modify the prohibition on recognition by United States courts of certain rights ...
• H.R. 2715: Jaime’s Law
• H.Res. 338: Recognizing that infertility is a widespread problem that affects populations of diverse ages, ...
• H.R. 2542: Fair Housing for Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Survivors Act of 2021
• H.R. 2493: Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2021
• H.Res. 231: Recognizing Girl Scouts of the United States of America on its 109th birthday ...
• H.Res. 82: Raising a question of the privileges of the House.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2005 to May 2021, Wasserman Schultz missed 585 of 11,200 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% 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.

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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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills