Sen. Jon Ossoff

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Ossoff is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Ossoff has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 8, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Jon Ossoff sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations subcommittee Chair

  Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, Government Operations and Border Management subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  Economic Policy, Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, National Security and International Trade and Finance subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, the Constitution, Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, Privacy, Technology, and the Law subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Enacted Legislation

Ossoff was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:

• S. 4359: Senator Johnny Isakson VA Regional Office Act of 2022
• S. 3655: Civil Rights Cold Case Investigations Support Act of 2022
• S. 4286: TBI and PTSD Law Enforcement Training Act
• S. 2305: Cybersecurity Opportunity Act
• S. 2365: Local Transit Planning Support Act

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Does 5 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

Ossoff sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (19%) Transportation and Public Works (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Taxation (11%) Water Resources Development (8%) Health (8%) Sports and Recreation (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Ossoff recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 4988: Federal Prison Oversight Act
• S. 4951: REMOVE Copays Act
• S.Res. 790: A resolution condemning the atrocities that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1906, in …
• S. 4816: Access for Veterans to Records Act of 2022
• S. 4698: Improving Cybersecurity of Credit Unions Act
• S. 4648: Pacific Islands Embassies Act
• S.Res. 718: A resolution designating the week of July 19 through July 25, 2022, as …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Dec 2022, Ossoff missed 39 of 912 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators 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
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills