Rep. Jefferson Van Drew

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Van Drew.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Van Drew 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 Van Drew has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 9, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Jefferson Van Drew sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Education and Labor
  Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions subcommittees
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  Oversight, Management, and Accountability, Transportation and Maritime Security subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Van Drew sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (40%) Transportation and Public Works (40%) Energy (20%)

Recent Bills

Some of Van Drew’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 7395: To require flags of the United States of America to be domestically made, ...
• H.R. 7230: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at Block ...
• H.R. 7229: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1087 ...
• H.R. 5678: Privacy Office Enhancement Act
• H.R. 5291: Fair Indexing for Health Care Affordability Act
• H.R. 5275: Keep the William J. Hughes Technical Center Funded for FY 2020 Act
• H.R. 5274: Pay Our Coast Guard Act of 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jul 2020, Van Drew missed 21 of 839 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with 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 the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills