Rep. John Katko’s 2017 Report Card
Representative
from New York's 24th District
Republican
Served Jan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2023
These year-end statistics cover Katko’s record during the 2017 legislative year (Jan 3, 2017-Dec 31, 2017) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 6, 2018.
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 Katko’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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Got influential cosponsors the 2nd most often compared to House Sophomores10 of Katko’s bills and resolutions in 2017 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. Those bills were: H.R. 398: HEART Act of 2017; H.R. 526: Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of …; H.R. 876: Aviation Employee Screening and Security …; H.R. 1309: TSA Administrator Modernization Act of …; H.R. 2132: Traveler Redress Improvement Act of …; H.R. 2169: Improving Fusion Centers’ Access to …; H.R. 2851: SITSA Act; H.R. 3328: Cuban Airport Security Act of …; H.R. 3731: Secret Service Recruitment and Retention …; H.R. 4567: DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act … Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (97th percentile); House Republicans (98th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 3rd most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 2 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 18 of Katko’s 20 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2017. Compare to all New York Delegation (96th percentile); House Sophomores (98th percentile); House Republicans (98th percentile); All Representatives (99th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 7th most often compared to House RepublicansIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 204 bills that Katko cosponsored, 32% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (74th percentile); House Sophomores (85th percentile); House Republicans (97th percentile); All Representatives (82nd percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Got the 8th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House SophomoresKatko’s bills and resolutions had 303 cosponsors in 2017. 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 New York Delegation (52nd percentile); House Sophomores (87th percentile); House Republicans (80th percentile); All Representatives (79th percentile). |
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Ranked the 9th top leader compared to House SophomoresOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2017 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Katko’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (67th percentile); House Sophomores (85th percentile); House Republicans (74th percentile); All Representatives (81st percentile). |
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Got their bills out of committee the 11th most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Katko introduced 11 bills in 2017 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 46: Fort Ontario Study Act; H.R. 526: Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of …; H.R. 876: Aviation Employee Screening and Security …; H.R. 1309: TSA Administrator Modernization Act of …; H.R. 2132: Traveler Redress Improvement Act of …; H.R. 2169: Improving Fusion Centers’ Access to …; H.R. 2851: SITSA Act; H.R. 3328: Cuban Airport Security Act of …; H.R. 3731: Secret Service Recruitment and Retention …; H.R. 3814: No Human Trafficking on Our …; H.R. 4567: DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act … Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (97th percentile); House Republicans (95th percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile). |
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Introduced the 29th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 3 others)Katko introduced 20 bills and resolutions in 2017. View Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (67th percentile); House Sophomores (92nd percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); All Representatives (84th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 32nd most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 2 others)Katko cosponsored 204 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 New York Delegation (26th percentile); House Sophomores (61st percentile); House Republicans (86th percentile); All Representatives (59th percentile). |
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Ranked 38th most politically left compared to House RepublicansOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2017 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Katko’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (74th percentile); House Sophomores (34th percentile); House Republicans (15th percentile); All Representatives (53rd percentile). |
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Laws EnactedKatko introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2017. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all New York Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 3328: Cuban Airport Security Act of …; H.R. 4408: Opioid Addiction Prevention Act of … Compare to all New York Delegation (56th percentile); House Sophomores (65th percentile); House Republicans (52nd percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsKatko held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Katko’s Profile » Compare to all New York Delegation (48th percentile); House Sophomores (45th percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Missed VotesKatko missed 2.1% of votes (15 of 710 votes) in 2017. View Katko’s Profile » Compare to all New York Delegation (48th percentile); House Sophomores (70th percentile); All Representatives (55th 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. |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Katko supported any of 21 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Katko 3 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Katko cosponsored H.Res. 604: CEASE Resolution; H.R. 4396: ME TOO Congress Act; H.R. 4494: Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund … Compare to all New York Delegation (81st percentile); House Sophomores (69th percentile); House Republicans (84th percentile); All Representatives (79th 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 2017) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
