Rep. Lois Capps

District:: California - District 24
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
2013-2015	Representative, California's 24^th District
2003-2013	Representative, California's 23^rd District
1998-2002	Representative, California's 22^nd District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Capps is a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. Capps’s bills have had a total of 278 cosponsors in the 113^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Capps to other members of the House of Representatives on leadership and ideology.

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Committee Membership

Lois Capps sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Power
- Member, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
- Member, Subcommittee on Health

Bills Sponsored

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Voting Record

From Mar 1998 to Apr 2014, Capps missed 255 of 11,094 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1998 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	71^st
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	2	1.0%	36^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	28	36.4%	99^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	30^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	14	9.6%	88^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	24	25.3%	94^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	4	1.4%	34^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	30^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	3	3.0%	27^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	1	1.3%	39^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	5	3.7%	69^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	3	2.0%	52^nd
2001 Oct-Dec	153	3	2.0%	47^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	1	0.5%	14^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	2	0.8%	30^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	2	1.0%	34^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	15	9.9%	89^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	2	1.9%	32^nd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	4	1.8%	41^st
2004 Jul-Sep	161	3	1.9%	36^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	1	1.7%	44^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	7	7.8%	83^rd
2005 Apr-Jun	272	5	1.8%	50^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	9	6.2%	84^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	4	2.5%	47^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	4	4.9%	76^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	3	1.1%	26^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	1	0.6%	28^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	19^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	5	1.3%	42^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	6	1.9%	51^st
2007 Oct-Dec	263	3	1.1%	23^rd
2008 Jan-Mar	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	1	0.3%	8^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	3	1.5%	34^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	1	0.6%	22^nd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	9	3.0%	63^rd
2009 Jul-Sep	268	10	3.7%	76^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	2	0.8%	18^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	16	8.2%	85^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	28^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	1	0.7%	20^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	8	8.1%	74^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	4	1.9%	66^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	2	0.7%	33^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	247	2	0.8%	35^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	11	5.3%	80^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	3	5.9%	68^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	3	3.4%	66^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	3	1.5%	50^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	1	0.7%	29^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	2	1.4%	38^th
2014 Apr-Apr	29	0	0.0%	0^th