Rep. James Baird

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Baird.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Baird 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 Baird has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 31, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

James Baird sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Research and Technology subcommittee Ranking Member

  Energy subcommittees
• House Committee on Agriculture
  Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Baird sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (100%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 6145: Industries of the Future Act of 2020
• H.R. 4817: VA Directly Returning Opioid Prescriptions Act
• H.R. 4770: CFTC Advisory Committee Improvement Act
• H.Res. 508: Honoring the 50th anniversary of the return of the Indiana Rangers.
• H.R. 3774: The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Improvements Act of ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jul 2020, Baird missed 7 of 879 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better 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
• Office of James Baird for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills