Eric “Rick” Crawford, Representative for Arkansas's 1st Congressional District

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Legislative Metrics

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Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Crawford has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Crawford is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Committee Membership

Eric “Rick” Crawford sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Agriculture
- Chair, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture
- Member, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Enacted Legislation

Crawford was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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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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 about one third or more 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:

Environmental Protection (19%) Animals (16%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Taxation (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Water Resources Development (10%) Immigration (6%) International Affairs (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Crawford’s Vote	Vote Description
Aye	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
Yea	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...
Nay	S.Con.Res. 11: An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 ... Apr 30, 2015. Passed 226/197.
Nay	H.Con.Res. 27: Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels ... Mar 25, 2015. Passed 228/199.
Nay	H.R. 83 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 Dec 11, 2014. Passed 219/206. This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December 11, 2014 and by the Senate on December 13, 2014. The bill was originally introduced on January 3, 2013 by ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Nay	H.Con.Res. 105 (113th): Prohibiting the President from deploying or maintaining United States Armed Forces in a sustained combat role in ... Jul 25, 2014. Passed 370/40.
Nay	H.R. 933 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 Mar 21, 2013. Passed 318/109.
Aye	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Jul 2017, Crawford missed 169 of 4,537 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 20 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	212	4	1.9%	66^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	3	1.2%	43^rd
2011 Oct-Dec	208	1	0.5%	18^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	2	1.3%	44^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	3	1.0%	40^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	38^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	6	6.7%	83^rd
2013 Apr-Jun	215	4	1.9%	52^nd
2013 Jul-Sep	200	2	1.0%	42^nd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	14	10.2%	93^rd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	24	16.2%	96^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	30	13.7%	93^rd
2014 Jul-Sep	147	1	0.7%	28^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	3	6.1%	85^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	6	4.2%	74^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	25	10.2%	93^rd
2015 Jul-Sep	139	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	5	2.8%	74^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	1	0.7%	18^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	15	7.4%	85^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	6	2.6%	73^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	7	3.4%	74^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	6	4.4%	79^th
2017 Jul-Jul	58	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Rep. Eric “Rick” Crawford

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