Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Jeffries has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Jeffries is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Jeffries for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Hakeem Jeffries sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training
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House Committee on the Judiciary
- Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Jeffries sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Crime and Law Enforcement (33%) Taxation (17%) Housing and Community Development (17%) Commerce (17%) Immigration (8%) Government Operations and Politics (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Jeffries’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5757: CASE Act of 2016
- H.R. 5154: F.A.I.R. Surveillance Act of 2016
- H.R. 5020: Synthetic Drug Awareness Act of 2016
- H.R. 4324: Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act of 2016
- H.R. 3864: Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act
- H.R. 3838: Fairness in Incarcerated Representation Act
- H.R. 3028: Grand Jury Transparency Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 2013 to Sep 2016, Jeffries missed 78 of 2,470 roll call votes, which is 3.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills