Rep. Lauren Underwood

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Underwood.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Underwood 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 Underwood has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Nov 20, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Lauren Underwood sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Education and Labor
  Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions subcommittees
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation, Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery subcommittees
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 2372: Veterans’ Care Quality Transparency Act
• H.R. 5444: Lower Insulin Costs Now Act

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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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Underwood sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (35%) Health (35%) Taxation (8%) Immigration (8%) Education (8%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 8779: To amend the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 to require Federal agencies ...
• H.R. 8084: Lethal Means Safety Training Act
• H.R. 8061: Community Immunity During COVID-19 Act of 2020
• H.R. 8027: Maternal Health Pandemic Response Act of 2020
• H.R. 7945: FAAN Act
• H.R. 7282: Protecting Against Public Safety Disinformation Act
• H.R. 6845: No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Nov 2020, Underwood missed 7 of 928 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better 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
• Office of Lauren Underwood for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills