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 liberal–conservative 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 Jul 2, 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

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Underwood sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (36%) Health (27%) Taxation (9%) Immigration (9%) Education (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 7282: To require the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of ...
• H.R. 6845: No Coronavirus Copays for Veterans Act
• H.R. 6141: Protecting Moms Who Served Act
• H.R. 6142: Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2020
• H.R. 6140: Veterans in STEM Act
• H.R. 5780: Safe Communities Act of 2020
• H.R. 5667: Safe Communities Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jul 2020, Underwood missed 7 of 839 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than the median of 2.2% 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