Rep. Jared Golden

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Golden 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 Golden has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Aug 9, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Jared Golden sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Small Business
  • Underserved, Agricultural, and Rural Business Development subcommittee Chair

  Contracting and Infrastructure subcommittees
• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee Vice Chair

  Readiness subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 8076 (116th): State Veterans Homes Domiciliary Care Flexibility Act
• H.R. 4719 (116th): Funding Instruction for Safety, Health, and Security Avoids Fishing Emergencies Act
• H.R. 4833 (116th): Multigenerational Engagement Act of 2019
• H.R. 459 (116th): Acadia National Park Boundary Clarification Act

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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

Golden sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (29%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Health (11%) Taxation (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%) Labor and Employment (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Golden recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8639: To make supplemental appropriations to carry out the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program …
• H.R. 8332: Elimination of the VA Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission Act of 2022
• H.R. 8106: Fighting Foreign Influence Act
• H.R. 7459: DHS Rural and Remote Hiring and Retention Strategy Act of 2022
• H.R. 7458: Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022
• H.R. 7268: Downeast Maine National Heritage Area Act
• H.R. 6707: Advancing Equality for Wabanaki Nations Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Aug 2022, Golden missed 28 of 1,823 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% 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 Jared Golden for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills