Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.

Analysis

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, 2017 to Aug 9, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Frank Pallone Jr. sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair

Enacted Legislation

Pallone was the primary sponsor of 18 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• 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 …
• H.R. 588 (115th): Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act
• H.R. 6400 (114th): To revise the boundaries of certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in New Jersey.

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Does 18 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 (36%) Science, Technology, Communications (20%) International Affairs (11%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%) Energy (7%) Commerce (7%) Native Americans (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pallone recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8152: American Data Privacy and Protection Act
• H.R. 7666: Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022
• H.R. 6963: Accelerated Approval Integrity Act of 2022
• H.R. 6851: No Surprises for COVID–19 Tests Act
• H.R. 5802: National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2021
• H.R. 5596: Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act of 2021
• H.R. 4917: Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2021

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1989 to Jul 2022, Pallone missed 318 of 20,826 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% 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
• 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