Rep. John Moolenaar

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Moolenaar.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Moolenaar 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 Moolenaar has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 13, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

John Moolenaar sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
  • Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Enacted Legislation

Moolenaar was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 6116 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 362 North Ross Street in Beaverton, Michigan, as the “Colonel Alfred Asch Post Office”.

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Does 1 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

Moolenaar sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (36%) Transportation and Public Works (21%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Science, Technology, Communications (14%) Government Operations and Politics (14%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.Con.Res. 61: Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17 as ...
• H.Res. 471: Expressing support for the designation of 2019 as the “International Year of the ...
• H.R. 3184: To amend title 49, United States Code, to increase the vehicle length limitation ...
• H.R. 2765: Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Security Act of 2019
• H.R. 2766: To nullify certain memorandum of the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal ...
• H.Res. 170: Supporting the men and women who carry out the essential mission of the ...
• H.R. 779: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Sep 2019, Moolenaar missed 20 of 3,065 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better than the median of 2.0% 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills