Rep. Jared Golden

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Golden.

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 6, 2015 to Sep 18, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Jared Golden sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Small Business
  • Contracting and Infrastructure subcommittee Chair

  Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade and Entrepreneurship subcommittees
• House Committee on Armed Services
  Seapower and Projection Forces, Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Golden was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 4833: Multigenerational Engagement Act of 2019
• H.R. 459: Acadia National Park Boundary Clarification Act

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Does 2 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 (36%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (29%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Health (14%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 8076: State Veterans Homes Domiciliary Care Flexibility Act
• H.R. 8040: Small Business Last Mile Act of 2020
• H.R. 8005: Veterans Access to Online Treatment Act
• H.R. 7684: Pandemic Care for Burn Pits Exposure Act of 2020
• H.R. 7526: Stop Foreign Payoffs Act
• H.R. 7525: Crack Down on Dark Money Act
• H.R. 7481: RESTART Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Sep 2020, Golden missed 1 of 896 roll call votes, which is 0.1%. 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 Jared Golden for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills