Rep. Gerald Connolly

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Connolly.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Connolly 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 Connolly has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 21, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Gerald Connolly sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • Government Operations subcommittee Chair

  Economic and Consumer Policy subcommittees
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Connolly was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 3243 (115th): FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017
• H.R. 1531 (114th): Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• H.R. 2827 (114th): Competitive Service Act of 2015
• H.R. 3096 (113th): To designate the building occupied by the Federal Bureau of Investigation located at 801 Follin Lane, Vienna, Virginia, as the “Michael D. Resnick Terrorist Screening Center”.

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Does 4 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

Connolly sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (50%) International Affairs (20%) Immigration (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4507: Protection of Saudi Dissidents Act of 2019
• H.R. 4382: Integrity Committee Transparency Act of 2019
• H.R. 4264: Safe Homefront Act
• H.R. 4147: Whistleblower Expansion Act of 2019
• H.R. 3941: FedRAMP Authorization Act
• H.R. 3883: Restore the Partnership Act
• H.R. 3376: Lady Liberty Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Jan 2020, Connolly missed 65 of 7,723 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better 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