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Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers’s 2015 Report Card

Representative from Kentucky's 5th District
Republican
Serving Jan 5, 1981 – Jan 3, 2025

These year-end statistics cover Rogers’s record during the 2015 legislative year (Jan 6, 2015-Dec 31, 2015) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 9, 2016.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Rogers’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Introduced the fewest bills compared to Kentucky Delegation

Rogers introduced 4 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (6th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (10th percentile); House Republicans (10th percentile); Safe House Seats (8th percentile); All Representatives (8th percentile).

 

Got influential cosponsors the least often compared to Kentucky Delegation

0 of Rogers’s bills and resolutions in 2015 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Held the most committee positions compared to Kentucky Delegation

Rogers held a leadership position on 1 committee and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. For comparison to other Members of Congress, we assigned a score giving five points for each full committee leadership position and one point for each subcommittee leadership position. View Rogers’s Profile »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (83rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); Safe House Seats (87th percentile); All Representatives (88th percentile).

 

Cosponsored the fewest bills compared to Kentucky Delegation

Rogers cosponsored 61 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (6th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (4th percentile); House Republicans (4th percentile); Safe House Seats (3rd percentile); All Representatives (3rd percentile).

 

Got the fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (tied with 1 other)

Rogers’s bills and resolutions had 0 cosponsors in 2015. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Wrote the 3rd most laws compared to House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (tied with 2 others)

Rogers introduced 2 bills that became law in 2015. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills »

Those bills were: H.R. 240: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations …; H.J.Res. 78: Making further continuing appropriations for …

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (83rd percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (91st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (95th percentile); House Republicans (95th percentile); Safe House Seats (97th percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile).

A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively.
 

Was 35th most present in votes compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 4 others)

Rogers missed 0.9% of votes (6 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Rogers’s Profile »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (33rd percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (31st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (20th percentile); Safe House Seats (25th percentile); All Representatives (25th percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.
 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Rogers introduced 0 bills in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 1 of Rogers’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.R. 240: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations …

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (33rd percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (15th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (23rd percentile); House Republicans (28th percentile); Safe House Seats (29th percentile); All Representatives (29th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Joining Bipartisan Bills

Of the 61 bills that Rogers cosponsored, 11% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (33rd percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (26th percentile); House Republicans (62nd percentile); Safe House Seats (37th percentile); All Representatives (35th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Government Transparency

GovTrack looked at whether Rogers supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Rogers 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Compare to all Kentucky Delegation (0th percentile); House Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2015) was the 114th Congress (freshmen) or 113th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.