Rep. Frank Wolf

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2014 Report Card for Wolf.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Wolf is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2014 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 Wolf sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2009 to Dec 11, 2014. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Wolf was the primary sponsor of 30 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 2787 (113th): Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
• H.R. 2867 (112th): United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2011
• H.R. 2596 (112th): Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
• H.R. 6392 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5003 Westfields Boulevard in Centreville, Virginia, as the “Colonel George Juskalian Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 2862 (109th): Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006
• H.J.Res. 115 (108th): Continuing Appropriations resolution FY2005 (Third)
• H.R. 4944 (107th): Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Act

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Does 30 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

Wolf sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (31%) Transportation and Public Works (21%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Commerce (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Wolf recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5415 (113th): Authorization for Use of Military Force against International Terrorism Act
• H.R. 5416 (113th): War Powers Consultation Act of 2014
• H.Res. 603 (113th): Electing certain Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
• H.R. 4660 (113th): Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015
• H.R. 4653 (113th): United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2014
• H.R. 4223 (113th): International Conflicts of Concern Act
• H.R. 2787 (113th): Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Dec 2014, Wolf missed 228 of 20,018 roll call votes, which is 1.1%. This is better than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2014. 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