Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Capps has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into her position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Capps is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Capps for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Lois Capps sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Power
- Member, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
- Member, Subcommittee on Health
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House Committee on Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Federal Lands
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Capps sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (43%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (11%) Environmental Protection (9%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Agriculture and Food (6%) Energy (6%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Capps’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6121: Climate Resiliency, Security, and Source Water Protection Act
- H.R. 5249: STOP Pain Act
- H.R. 4621: Hallways to Health Act
- H.R. 4280: To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to Colonel Philip ...
- H.Res. 470: Congratulating the National Institute of Nursing Research on the occasion of its 30th ...
- H.R. 3565: California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act
- H.R. 3218: Designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1221 State ...
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Voting Record
From Mar 1998 to Sep 2016, Capps missed 319 of 12,757 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 81 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills