Rep. Lois Frankel

Analysis

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 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 3, 2017 to Dec 2, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Lois Frankel sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittees
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  Health subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Frankel was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 4814: To obtain and direct the placement in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds of a statue to honor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United …
• H.R. 1455: To obtain and direct the placement in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds of a monument to honor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United …
• H.R. 1678 (115th): 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 …

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Does 3 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 (45%) Health (19%) Labor and Employment (13%) Immigration (10%) Education (6%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Frankel recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Con.Res. 114: Expressing support for the designation of the week of November 13 through November …
• H.Res. 1459: Acknowledging the courage and sacrifice of veterans of the Korean War and Korean …
• H.Con.Res. 107: Designating the week of September 18 through September 24, 2022, as “National Fall …
• H.R. 8227: Speak Out Act
• H.R. 7056: Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2021
• H.R. 6302: Protecting the Health of America’s Older Adults Act
• H.R. 6015: Benjamin Berell Ferencz Congressional Gold Medal Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Dec 2022, Frankel missed 204 of 5,625 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% 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