Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Sinema.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Sinema is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Sinema has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Nov 18, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Kyrsten Sinema sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Aviation and Space subcommittee Ranking Member

  Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  Economic Policy, National Security and International Trade and Finance, Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging
• Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Enacted Legislation

Sinema was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:

• S. 504: Let Everyone Get Involved in Opportunities for National Service Act
• S. 1749: Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019
• S. 1467: Sergeant Daniel Somers Network of Support Act
• H.R. 3758 (115th): Senior Safe Act of 2017
• H.R. 3100 (115th): To require the President to develop a national strategy for combating the financing of terrorism and related forms of illicit finance, and for other purposes.

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Does 5 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

Sinema sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (31%) Finance and Financial Sector (19%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Education (8%) Immigration (8%) Native Americans (6%) Labor and Employment (6%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 4922: A bill to expand and enhance programs and activities of the Department of ...
• S. 4475: La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act
• S. 4341: CREATE Act of 2020
• S. 4308: Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act
• S. 4224: Southwest Border Security Technology Improvement Act of 2020
• S. 4168: A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award ...
• S. 4166: Ensuring Survivors Benefits during COVID-19 Act of 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Nov 2020, Sinema missed 58 of 666 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is much worse than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators 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