Ken Buck, Representative for Colorado's 4th Congressional District

Buck is the representative for Colorado’s 4^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Buck’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2019.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Buck.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Buck 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 Buck has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

The Club for Growth: 100% Americans for Prosperity: 98% FreedomWorks: 95% NumbersUSA: 95% United States Chamber of Commerce: 68% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B American Civil Liberties Union: 17% NIAC Action: D Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 10% League of Conservation Voters: 1% Human Rights Campaign: 0%

Committee Membership

Ken Buck sits on the following committees:

House Committee on the Judiciary
- Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law
House Committee on Rules
- Member, Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process

Enacted Legislation

Buck was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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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

Buck sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (20%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Crime and Law Enforcement (20%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (13%) Law (13%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Buck’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 6157: Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 Sep 26, 2018. Passed 361/61. H.R. 6157 provides $674.6 billion in total discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The bill provides $606.5 billion for the Department of Defense base budget, which is an increase of $17.1 billion above FY18 levels, and $68.1 billion ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Feb 16, 2017. Passed 230/188. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Aye	S. 612: A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the “George P. Kazen Federal Building ... Dec 8, 2016. Passed 360/61.
No	H.R. 3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Jul 15, 2015. Passed 312/119.
No	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
Yea	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Nov 2018, Buck missed 92 of 2,455 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2015 Jan-Mar	144	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	43	17.6%	98^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	15	10.8%	91^st
2015 Oct-Dec	177	1	0.6%	31^st
2016 Jan-Mar	137	3	2.2%	44^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	2	1.0%	32^nd
2016 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	23^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	2	1.0%	36^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	31^st
2017 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	6	4.7%	70^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	18	9.8%	87^th
2018 Jul-Sep	102	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th

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

Ken Buck is pronounced:

ken // buk

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
E e	bed
K k	king
N n	not
U u	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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