Rep. Dennis Ross

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Ross.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Ross is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2018 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 Ross sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2013 to Dec 21, 2018. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Ross was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 1326 (114th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the “Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post …
• H.R. 2997 (114th): Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015

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Does 2 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

Ross sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (27%) Government Operations and Politics (23%) Taxation (16%) Immigration (9%) International Affairs (9%) Health (7%) Housing and Community Development (5%) Economics and Public Finance (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Ross recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 6292 (115th): Nonprofit Property Protection Act
• H.R. 5973 (115th): Disaster Assistance Risk Transfer Act of 2018
• H.R. 5666 (115th): Primary Regulators of Insurance Vote Act of 2018
• H.Res. 794 (115th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the national parks, …
• H.R. 5266 (115th): Financial Product Safety Commission Act of 2018
• H.J.Res. 122 (115th): Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States …
• H.R. 4061 (115th): Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2017

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Dec 2018, Ross missed 228 of 5,345 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2018. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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