Garland “Andy” Barr, Representative for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District

Barr is the representative for Kentucky’s 6^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Barr is next up for reelection in 2018.

Photo of Rep. Garland “Andy” Barr [R-KY6]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Barr.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Barr 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 Barr has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Americans for Prosperity: 90% United States Chamber of Commerce: 90% FreedomWorks: 75% The Club for Growth: 70% NumbersUSA: 48% NIAC Action: D The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D American Civil Liberties Union: 5% League of Conservation Voters: 2% Human Rights Campaign: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Garland “Andy” Barr sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Financial Services
- Chair, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit

Enacted Legislation

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

H.R. 4533: To designate the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lexington, Kentucky, as the “Lexington VA Health Care System” and to make certain other designations.

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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

Barr sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (42%) Taxation (26%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Health (7%) Sports and Recreation (5%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Barr’s Vote	Vote Description
Yea	H.R. 1314: Trade Act of 2015 Oct 28, 2015. Passed 266/167. This vote turned this bill into the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, by replacing the text of the bill in whole. H.R. 1314 was previously the Trade Act of 2015.
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 ...
Yea	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.R. 41 (113th): Hurricane Sandy relief bill Jan 4, 2013. Passed 354/67.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Apr 2018, Barr missed 34 of 3,386 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	1	0.5%	24^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	26^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	23^rd
2014 Apr-Jun	219	2	0.9%	35^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	5	3.6%	76^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	1	0.6%	31^st
2016 Jan-Mar	137	1	0.7%	18^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	1	0.5%	19^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	23^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	3	1.4%	51^st
2017 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	6	3.0%	80^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	5	3.0%	65^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	6	4.7%	70^th
2018 Apr-Apr	18	0	0.0%	0^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Garland “Andy” Barr is pronounced:

GAHR-lund // bahr

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
AH ah	calm
B b	bat
D d	day
G g	get
L l	leg
N n	not
R r	rag
U u	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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