Rep. Eric “Rick” Crawford

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Crawford.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Crawford 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 liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Crawford has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Eric “Rick” Crawford sits on the following committees:

• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  • Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittee Ranking Member
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials subcommittee Ranking Member

  Highways and Transit subcommittees
• House Committee on Agriculture
  Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, General Farm Commodities and Risk Management subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 1123: Divisional Realignment for the Eastern District of Arkansas Act of 2019
• H.R. 2954 (114th): To designate the Federal building located at 617 Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, as the “Jacob Trieber Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court ...

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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

Crawford sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (19%) Environmental Protection (15%) Taxation (12%) Animals (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Emergency Management (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Crawford’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 5175: Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2019
• H.R. 4717: Swap Trading Improvement Act
• H.R. 4383: Cents for Sense Act of 2019
• H.R. 3740: AGRI Act of 2019
• H.R. 2980: Eagle Corps Act of 2019
• H.R. 2889: AWARE Act
• H.R. 1898: Cuba Agricultural Exports Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Feb 2020, Crawford missed 268 of 6,121 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% 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