Rep. Lois Frankel

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Frankel.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Frankel 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 Frankel has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Oct 18, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Lois Frankel sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies
  • Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
  • Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Enacted Legislation

Frankel was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 1678: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act concerning the statute of limitations for actions to recover disaster or emergency assistance payments, and for ...

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Does 1 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

Frankel sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (32%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (13%) Health (10%) Education (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) Immigration (10%) Labor and Employment (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4744: To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds for certain agreements relating ...
• H.R. 3881: Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019
• H.R. 3804: Athletics Fair Pay Act of 2019
• H.R. 2239: To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide for a deferral of ...
• H.R. 2153: Keeping Girls in School Act
• H.Res. 291: Recognizing that contributions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are vital to United ...
• H.Con.Res. 30: Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity between wages paid to ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Oct 2019, Frankel missed 190 of 4,309 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills