Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Jeffries.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Hakeem Jeffries sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Budget
• House Committee on the Judiciary
  Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 3979: Keep America’s Refuges Operational Act
• H.R. 1527 (114th): Slain Officer Family Support Act of 2015
• H.R. 544 (114th): Slain Officer Family Support Act of 2015
• H.R. 5108 (113th): To establish the Law School Clinic Certification Program of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and for other purposes.

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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

Jeffries sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (46%) Commerce (17%) Taxation (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Health (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.Res. 793: Electing a certain Member to a certain standing committee of the House of ...
• H.R. 5586: Haiti Development, Accountability, and Institutional Transparency Initiative Act
• H.R. 5546: Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act
• H.Res. 773: Electing certain Members to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.
• H.Res. 725: Electing a certain Member to a certain standing committee of the House of ...
• H.Res. 712: Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives and ranking ...
• H.R. 5065: Prison to Proprietorship for Formerly Incarcerated Act

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As House Democratic Caucus Chair, Jeffries may be focused on his responsibilities other than introducing legislation, such as setting the chamber’s agenda, uniting his party, and brokering deals.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Feb 2020, Jeffries missed 144 of 4,510 roll call votes, which is 3.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% 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