Bilirakis is the representative for Florida’s 12th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Bilirakis is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 60 years old.
He was previously the representative for Florida’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 2007 to 2012.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Bilirakis was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Bilirakis joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL12]](/static/legislator-photos/412250-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Bilirakis.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Bilirakis 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 Bilirakis has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 23, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Gus Bilirakis sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Bilirakis was the primary sponsor of 18 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 4551 (117th): RANSOMWARE Act
- H.R. 8299 (117th): To allow for devices with a predetermined change control plan to be marketed without submitting a supplemental application or premarket notification if the changes to such devices …
- H.R. 5151 (117th): Col. James Floyd Turner IV U.S.M.C. GI Bill Transfer Act of 2021
- H.R. 4255 (117th): FAIR Crash Tests Act
- H.R. 3504 (116th): Ryan Kules and Paul Benne Specially Adaptive Housing Improvement Act of 2019
- H.R. 1222 (115th): Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2017
- H.R. 4830 (115th): SIT-REP Act
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Bilirakis sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (42%) Armed Forces and National Security (28%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%) International Affairs (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Bilirakis recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1617: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists …
- H.R. 1618: To establish the Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security, and for other …
- H.R. 1282: Major Richard Star Act
- H.R. 990: SAFE Hospitals Act of 2023
- H.R. 303: Retired Pay Restoration Act
- H.R. 9365 (117th): Parity for Online Student Veterans Act
- H.Res. 1261 (117th): Of inquiry requesting the President to provide certain documents to the House …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2007 to Mar 2023, Bilirakis missed 221 of 10,990 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% 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, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
