Ken Calvert, Representative for California's 42nd Congressional District

Calvert is the representative for California’s 42^nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Calvert is next up for reelection in 2018.

He was previously the representative for California’s 44^th congressional district as a Republican from 2003 to 2012; and the representative for California’s 43^rd congressional district as a Republican from 1993 to 2002.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Calvert.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

United States Chamber of Commerce: 97% NumbersUSA: 92% Americans for Prosperity: 82% The Club for Growth: 70% FreedomWorks: 65% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C Human Rights Campaign: 16% League of Conservation Voters: 6% American Civil Liberties Union: 5% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 3% NIAC Action: F

Committee Membership

Ken Calvert sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Appropriations
- Chair, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies

Enacted Legislation

Calvert was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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 about one third or more 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

Calvert sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (28%) Environmental Protection (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (11%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Immigration (8%) Native Americans (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Calvert’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 985: Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015 Nov 14, 2016. Passed 355/38.
Yea	H.R. 1314: Trade Act of 2015 Oct 28, 2015. Passed 266/167. This vote turned this bill into the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, by replacing the text of the bill in whole. H.R. 1314 was previously the Trade Act of 2015.
Yea	H.R. 719: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016 Sep 30, 2015. Passed 277/151. This was a vote to agree to the provisions to keep the government funded through December 11, 2015 that the Senate had added in a previous vote. With this vote, the House approved the Senate's changes to the bill, with the government funding provisions, sending ...
Aye	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 ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
No	H.R. 3521 (112th): Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2012 Feb 8, 2012. Passed 254/173.
Aye	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and ...
Yea	H.Res. 1525 (110th): Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 1424) to amend section 712 of ... Oct 3, 2008. Passed 223/205.
Yea	H.R. 249 (110th): To restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. Apr 26, 2007. Passed 277/137.

Missed Votes

From Jan 1993 to Apr 2018, Calvert missed 461 of 16,817 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% 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
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	43^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	15	7.9%	73^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	1	0.7%	22^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	16^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	13	5.9%	81^st
1994 Jul-Sep	142	15	10.6%	84^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	6	11.8%	89^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	2	0.7%	42^nd
1995 Apr-Jun	189	10	5.3%	79^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	36^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	8	4.3%	78^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	4	3.6%	55^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	21	11.5%	96^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	48^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	5	2.9%	61^st
1997 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	13^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	39^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	24^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	4	5.4%	78^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	37^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	15^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	5	2.5%	70^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	6	4.1%	70^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	64^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	1	0.4%	15^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	68^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	11	10.9%	72^nd
2001 Jan-Mar	75	4	5.3%	84^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	6	4.4%	78^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	1	0.7%	26^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	2	1.3%	34^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	8	10.1%	87^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	6	3.0%	57^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	9	6.4%	74^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	5	2.1%	55^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	1	0.5%	18^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	19	12.6%	92^nd
2004 Jan-Mar	104	14	13.5%	88^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	5	3.1%	47^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	1	1.1%	19^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	4	1.5%	46^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	3	2.1%	53^rd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	10	6.1%	80^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	1	1.2%	38^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	9	3.3%	68^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	5	3.1%	66^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	31	14.6%	99^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	9	2.3%	64^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	8	2.5%	63^rd
2007 Oct-Dec	263	12	4.6%	71^st
2008 Jan-Mar	149	7	4.7%	64^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	12	3.7%	61^st
2008 Jul-Sep	205	5	2.4%	48^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	6	3.4%	68^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	1	0.4%	13^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	2	0.8%	19^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	12	6.2%	78^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	10	4.6%	69^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	1	0.7%	21^st
2010 Nov-Dec	99	14	14.1%	89^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	4	1.6%	54^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	6	2.9%	62^nd
2012 Jan-Mar	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	9	3.0%	66^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	4	7.8%	78^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	26^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	5	3.6%	70^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	5	3.4%	66^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	44^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	3	2.0%	61^st
2014 Nov-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	1	0.7%	26^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	1	0.4%	27^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	1	0.7%	34^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	2	1.1%	52^nd
2016 Jan-Mar	137	1	0.7%	18^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	3	1.5%	40^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	8	3.4%	80^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	4	1.9%	61^st
2017 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	31^st
2017 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	37^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	24^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	3	2.3%	50^th
2018 Apr-Apr	18	1	5.6%	75^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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Ken Calvert is pronounced:

ken // KAL-vert

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
E e	bed
ER er	her
K k	king
L l	leg
N n	not
T t	top
V v	van

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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