Rep. Frederica Wilson

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Wilson.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Wilson 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 Wilson has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 27, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Frederica Wilson sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Education and Labor
  • Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions subcommittee Chair

  Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education subcommittees
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  Highways and Transit, Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Water Resources and Environment subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Wilson was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 3833 (114th): To require a regional strategy to address the threat posed by Boko Haram.
• H.R. 1092 (114th): To designate the Federal building located at 2030 Southwest 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida, as the “Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building”.
• H.R. 4030 (113th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18640 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the “Father Richard Marquess-Barry Post Office Building”.

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Does 3 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

Wilson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Education (30%) Labor and Employment (20%) International Affairs (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Health (7%) Taxation (7%) Housing and Community Development (6%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.Res. 609: Expressing support to designate the week of September 22 through September 28, 2019, ...
• H.R. 4578: Build Effective Teachers Through Essential Reforms to Teacher Education Assistance for College and ...
• H.R. 4579: Quality Higher Education Act of 2019
• H.R. 4303: Bahamas TPS Act of 2019
• H.R. 3027: Student Loan Borrowers’ Bill of Rights Act of 2019
• H.Res. 375: Recognizing the Fifth Anniversary of the Chibok Girls Kidnapping by the Boko Haram ...
• H.R. 2688: Salad Bars in Schools Expansion Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Jan 2020, Wilson missed 563 of 6,073 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is much worse than 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills