Kyrsten Sinema, Representative for Arizona's 9th Congressional District

Sinema is the representative for Arizona’s 9^th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2013. Sinema’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2019.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 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 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 Sinema has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Human Rights Campaign: 100% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% League of Conservation Voters: 77% United States Chamber of Commerce: 76% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B American Civil Liberties Union: 64% Americans for Prosperity: 27% NumbersUSA: 21% NIAC Action: D The Club for Growth: 4% FreedomWorks: 0%

Committee Membership

Kyrsten Sinema sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment
- Member, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance

Enacted Legislation

Sinema was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

View All »

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:

Finance and Financial Sector (30%) Armed Forces and National Security (22%) Immigration (17%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Taxation (9%) Education (9%)

Recent Bills

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

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Voting Record

Key Votes

Sinema’s Vote	Vote Description
No	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Feb 16, 2017. Passed 230/188. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
No	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. ...
Aye	H.R. 2596: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 Jun 16, 2015. Passed 247/178. The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (IAA), H.R. 2596, was passed by the House on June 16. The IAA would authorize funding for intelligence-related agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was passed ...
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 ...
Yea	H.R. 622: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 Apr 16, 2015. Passed 272/152.
Yea	H.J.Res. 35: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes. Feb 27, 2015. Failed 203/224.
Yea	H.R. 83 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 Dec 11, 2014. Passed 219/206. This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December 11, 2014 and by the Senate on December 13, 2014. The bill was originally introduced on January 3, 2013 by ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Yea	H.J.Res. 71 (113th): District of Columbia Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 Oct 1, 2013. Failed 265/163.
Aye	H.R. 1947 (113th): Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 Jun 20, 2013. Failed 195/234.
Nay	H.R. 592 (113th): Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 Feb 13, 2013. Passed 354/72.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Dec 2018, Sinema missed 138 of 3,673 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2013 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	42^nd
2013 Apr-Jun	215	1	0.5%	24^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	23	11.5%	95^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	4	2.9%	64^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	2	1.4%	40^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	1	0.7%	28^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	3	2.1%	50^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	2	0.8%	41^st
2015 Jul-Sep	139	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	26	14.7%	97^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	2	1.5%	32^nd
2016 Apr-Jun	204	3	1.5%	40^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	12	5.2%	88^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	1	2.1%	61^st
2017 Jan-Mar	208	38	18.3%	97^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	2	1.5%	45^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	37^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	55^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	4	3.1%	56^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	5	2.7%	51^st
2018 Jul-Sep	102	2	2.0%	50^th
2018 Nov-Dec	19	1	5.3%	58^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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Kyrsten Sinema is pronounced:

KEER-stun // SE-nuh-muh

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
E e	bed
EER eer	beer
K k	king
M m	man
N n	not
S s	sit
T t	top
U u	cup
UH uh	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema

Links

Follow GovTrack on social media for more updates:

On GovTrack Insider:

I have an opinion I want to share.

I need help, have a question, or want to schedule a tour.