Rep. Don Young’s 2020 Report Card
Representative
from Alaska's At-Large District
Republican
Served Mar 6, 1973 – Mar 18, 2022
These statistics cover Young’s record during the 116th Congress (Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2021) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 30, 2021.
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 Young’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 2nd most bills compared to House RepublicansYoung introduced 54 bills and resolutions in the 116th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (92nd percentile); House Republicans (99th percentile); All Representatives (95th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 2nd most bills compared to House RepublicansThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.Res. 1022: Recognizing the 75th anniversary of …; H.R. 422: Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and …; H.R. 558: Native American Millennium Challenge Demonstration …; H.R. 711: To require the Comptroller General …; H.R. 933: To provide for the conveyance …; H.R. 1806: Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska …; H.R. 3020: SEAL Act; H.R. 5427: Promoting Aviation Regulations for Technical …; H.R. 5839: Explore America Act of 2019; H.R. 7571: Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary …; H.R. 8066: Tribal Economic Development Act of …; H.R. 8250: 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act; H.R. 8398: University of Alaska Fiscal Foundation …; H.R. 8469: To amend the Alyce Spotted …; H.R. 8683: To amend the Alaska Native …; H.R. 8751: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities … Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (96th percentile); House Republicans (99th percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 4th 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. 27 of Young’s 54 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Young caucused with in the 116th Congress. Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (95th percentile); House Republicans (97th 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 4th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 3 others)8 of Young’s bills and resolutions in the 116th 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. 1135: Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations …; H.R. 1240: Young Fishermen’s Development Act; H.R. 1416: Tribal Marijuana Sovereignty Act of …; H.R. 1748: Safe Freight Act of 2019; H.R. 2818: Summer Meals Act of 2019; H.R. 4483: LAMP Act of 2019; H.R. 5153: Indian Buffalo Management Act; H.R. 5427: Promoting Aviation Regulations for Technical … Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (76th percentile); House Republicans (96th percentile); All Representatives (82nd percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 6th most often compared to All RepresentativesIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 398 bills that Young cosponsored, 73% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (98th percentile); House Republicans (97th percentile); All Representatives (99th 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 7th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 1 other)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Young introduced 7 bills in the 116th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.Res. 4: Authorizing the Clerk to inform …; H.R. 422: Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and …; H.R. 1218: American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act; H.R. 1240: Young Fishermen’s Development Act; H.R. 1314: Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation …; H.R. 5153: Indian Buffalo Management Act; H.R. 7119: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium … Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (77th percentile); House Republicans (96th percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 13th most bills compared to House RepublicansYoung cosponsored 398 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 Serving 10+ Years (54th percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (56th percentile). |
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Ranked the 20th top leader compared to House RepublicansOur 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 116th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Young’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (55th percentile); House Republicans (90th percentile); All Representatives (64th percentile). |
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Got the 26th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House RepublicansYoung’s bills and resolutions had 370 cosponsors in the 116th 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 Serving 10+ Years (51st percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); All Representatives (60th percentile). |
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Ranked 35th 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 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Young’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (68th percentile); House Republicans (17th percentile); All Representatives (62nd percentile). |
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Was 68th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 2 others)Young missed 6.1% of votes (58 of 954 votes) in the 116th Congress. View Young’s Profile » Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (83rd percentile); All Representatives (84th 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. |
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Laws EnactedYoung introduced 2 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 116th 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. 422: Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and …; H.R. 1240: Young Fishermen’s Development Act Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (63rd percentile); House Republicans (80th percentile); All Representatives (67th 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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Committee PositionsYoung 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 Young’s Profile » Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (19th percentile); House Republicans (44th percentile); All Representatives (42nd 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 the 116th Congress) was the 116th Congress (freshmen) or 115th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
