Rep. Lauren Underwood

Analysis

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 3, 2017 to Jul 1, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Lauren Underwood sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Homeland Security subcommittees
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  Health, Oversight and Investigations subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 5575: VA Nurse and Physician Assistant RAISE Act
• H.R. 958: Protecting Moms Who Served Act
• H.R. 2372 (116th): Veterans’ Care Quality Transparency Act
• H.R. 6140 (116th): Veterans in STEM Act
• H.R. 5444 (116th): Lower Insulin Costs Now Act

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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

Underwood sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (37%) Armed Forces and National Security (33%) Taxation (7%) Labor and Employment (6%) Education (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Underwood recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7974: Endometriosis CARE Act of 2022
• H.R. 7565: NIH IMPROVE Act
• H.R. 6938: Job Protection Act
• H.R. 6555: DEMAND Act of 2022
• H.R. 6052: Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General Training Act of 2021
• H.R. 5603: Protections for Student Veterans Act
• H.R. 5575: VA Nurse and Physician Assistant RAISE Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jun 2022, Underwood missed 9 of 1,702 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better 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.

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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