Rep. Frank Pallone

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Pallone.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Pallone 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 Pallone has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 23, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Frank Pallone sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Energy and Commerce Ranking Member

Enacted Legislation

Pallone was the primary sponsor of 20 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 4369 (117th): National Centers of Excellence in Advanced and Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act of 2021
• H.R. 1257 (117th): Homeless Veterans CREDIT Act
• H.R. 4998 (116th): Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019
• H.R. 4459 (116th): Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019
• H.R. 3375 (116th): Stopping Bad Robocalls Act
• H.R. 259 (116th): Medicaid Extenders Act of 2019
• H.R. 477 (116th): To amend section 7 of Public Law 100-515 (16 U.S.C. 1244 note) to promote continued use of the James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Gateway National …

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Does 20 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

Pallone sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (37%) Science, Technology, Communications (24%) Energy (10%) International Affairs (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pallone recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 1320: COAST Anti-Drilling Act
• H.Res. 108: Condemning Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and ongoing human rights …
• H.R. 675: Secure Space Act of 2023
• H.R. 432: Buy Low and Sell High Act
• H.R. 9464 (117th): Secure Space Act of 2022
• H.R. 8989 (117th): Buy Low and Sell High Act
• H.R. 8152 (117th): American Data Privacy and Protection Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1989 to Mar 2023, Pallone missed 318 of 21,120 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% 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, 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
• United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
• Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills