Rep. Kevin Brady

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Brady.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Brady 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Brady has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Oct 20, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Kevin Brady sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member

Enacted Legislation

Brady was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 4318 (115th): Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018
• H.R. 1 (115th): An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
• H.R. 3823 (115th): Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017
• H.R. 3178 (115th): Medicare Part B Improvement Act of 2017
• H.R. 3172 (115th): Medicare IVIG Demonstration Extension Act of 2017
• H.J.Res. 42 (115th): Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to drug testing of unemployment compensation applicants.
• H.R. 5356 (114th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14231 TX-150 in Coldspring, Texas, as the “E. Marie Youngblood Post Office”.

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Does 17 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

Brady sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (25%) Taxation (21%) Health (18%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Labor and Employment (11%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Government Operations and Politics (7%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 11: Commitment to American GROWTH Act
• H.R. 8201: Support for Workers, Families, and Social Security Act
• H.R. 7066: Reopening America by Supporting Workers and Businesses Act of 2020
• H.R. 7065: To require States to certify a process for distributing Coronavirus Relief Funds to ...
• H.R. 4602: Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
• H.R. 4514: Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act
• H.R. 3934: Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Oct 2020, Brady missed 708 of 15,627 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% 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