Mfume is the representative for Maryland’s 7th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since May 5, 2020. Mfume is next up for reelection in 2022 and serves until Jan 3, 2023.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1987 to 1996.
![Photo of Rep. Kweisi Mfume [D-MD7]](/static/legislator-photos/407672-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Mfume 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 Mfume has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Aug 9, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Kweisi Mfume sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Small Business
Vice Chair
- Contracting and Infrastructure subcommittee Chair
Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations subcommittees -
House Committee on Education and Labor
Civil Rights and Human Services subcommittees
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House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, National Security subcommittees
Enacted Legislation
Mfume was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.J.Res. 367 (101st): Designating February 11 through 17, 1990, as “Vocational-Technical Education Week”.
- H.J.Res. 572 (100th): A joint resolution designating November 28 through December 2, 1988, as “Vocational-Technical Education Week”.
Does 2 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Mfume sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Commerce (100%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Mfume recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7091: Henrietta Lacks Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 6990: Doris Miller Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 6931: Baltimore National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act
- H.Con.Res. 54: Objecting to the slowdown in mail delivery and postage rate increase instituted by …
- H.R. 5528: Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2021
- H.R. 5276: To amend the Small Business Act to modify Govermentwide goals for certain small …
- H.R. 4367: BOOST Act of 2021
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1987 to Jul 2022, Mfume missed 291 of 5,827 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% 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.
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
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
