Rep. John Katko’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from New York's 24th District
Republican
Served Jan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2023
These statistics cover Katko’s record during the 115th Congress (Jan 3, 2017-Jan 3, 2019) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 20, 2019.
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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Wrote the 2nd most laws compared to House SophomoresKatko introduced 5 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 115th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 46: Fort Ontario Study Act; H.R. 3731: Secret Service Recruitment and Retention …; H.R. 3814: No Human Trafficking on Our …; H.R. 5729: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability …; H.R. 5730: Transportation Security Technology Innovation Reform … Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (97th percentile); House Republicans (92nd percentile); All Representatives (95th 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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Supported government transparency the 2nd most often compared to New York Delegation (tied with 2 others)GovTrack looked at whether Katko supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Katko 4 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Katko cosponsored H.R. 24: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of …; 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 (85th percentile); House Sophomores (67th percentile); House Republicans (82nd percentile); All Representatives (82nd percentile). |
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Got influential cosponsors the 4th most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 3 others)15 of Katko’s bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress 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 …; H.R. 4902: SRF WIN Act; H.R. 5081: Surface Transportation Security and Technology …; H.R. 5729: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability …; H.R. 5730: Transportation Security Technology Innovation Reform …; H.R. 6265: PreCheck is PreCheck Act of … Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (97th percentile); House Republicans (98th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). |
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Introduced the 6th most bills compared to House Sophomores (tied with 1 other)Katko introduced 30 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (67th percentile); House Sophomores (89th percentile); House Republicans (84th percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 7th most bills compared to All RepresentativesIn this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 30 of Katko’s 30 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Katko caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all New York Delegation (96th percentile); House Sophomores (98th percentile); House Republicans (97th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 8th most often compared to House RepublicansIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 323 bills that Katko cosponsored, 34% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (85th percentile); House Sophomores (92nd percentile); House Republicans (97th percentile); All Representatives (85th 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 bicameral support on the 7th most bills compared to House Sophomores (tied with 4 others)The 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 …; H.R. 4902: SRF WIN Act; H.R. 5729: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability … Compare to all New York Delegation (74th percentile); House Sophomores (82nd percentile); House Republicans (74th percentile); All Representatives (70th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Got the 10th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House SophomoresKatko’s bills and resolutions had 445 cosponsors in the 115th Congress. 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 (56th percentile); House Sophomores (84th percentile); House Republicans (81st percentile); All Representatives (77th percentile). |
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Ranked the 10th 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 the 115th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Katko’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (63rd percentile); House Sophomores (84th percentile); House Republicans (73rd percentile); All Representatives (80th percentile). |
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Got their bills out of committee the 19th most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Katko introduced 15 bills in the 115th Congress 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 …; H.R. 5081: Surface Transportation Security and Technology …; H.R. 5729: Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability …; H.R. 5730: Transportation Security Technology Innovation Reform …; H.R. 6265: PreCheck is PreCheck Act of … Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (95th percentile); House Republicans (92nd percentile); All Representatives (95th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 22nd most bills compared to House RepublicansKatko cosponsored 323 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 (22nd percentile); House Sophomores (62nd percentile); House Republicans (91st percentile); All Representatives (59th percentile). |
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Ranked 42nd 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 the 115th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Katko’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (78th percentile); House Sophomores (34th percentile); House Republicans (17th percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile). |
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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 (52nd percentile); House Sophomores (46th percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Missed VotesKatko missed 3.1% of votes (38 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Katko’s Profile » Compare to all New York Delegation (56th percentile); House Sophomores (69th percentile); All Representatives (57th 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. |
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 the 115th Congress) 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.
