Rep. Ken Buck

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Ken Buck sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Judiciary
  • Immigration and Citizenship subcommittee Ranking Member

  Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law subcommittees
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  Oversight and Investigations, Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Buck was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 1330: Amache Study Act
• H.R. 6779: Using Data to Prevent Opioid Diversion Act of 2018
• H.R. 5844: Amache Study Act

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Does 3 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

Buck sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (20%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Law (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (15%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) International Affairs (10%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5862: Stop Greenlighting Driver Licenses for Illegal Immigrants Act
• H.R. 5557: Threatened Species Protection Improvement Act of 2020
• H.R. 5345: Innocent Party Protection Act
• H.R. 5122: FARM Act of 2019
• H.R. 2299: Multilateral Aid Review Act of 2019
• H.R. 1330: Amache Study Act
• H.R. 807: Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Feb 2020, Buck missed 201 of 3,311 roll call votes, which is 6.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.2% 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