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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s 2022 Report Card

Representative from Iowa's 2nd District
Republican
Served Jan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023

These statistics cover Miller-Meeks’s record during the 117th Congress (Jan 3, 2021-Jan 3, 2023) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Feb 12, 2023.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Miller-Meeks’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Got bicameral support on the 3rd most bills compared to House Freshmen

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 9 of Miller-Meeks’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.Res. 318: Expressing the sense of the …; H.R. 2591: DUMP Opioids Act; H.R. 4391: Responsibility for Unaccompanied Minors Act; H.R. 4571: SERVICE Act of 2021; H.R. 5498: Preserving Employment Visas Act; H.R. 5645: Save Our Servicemembers Act of …; H.R. 5959: CHOICE Act; H.R. 8230: BUILD IT Act; H.R. 8246: Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying …

Compare to all House Freshmen (96th percentile); House Republicans (92nd percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 7th most bills compared to House Freshmen (tied with 2 others)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 11 of Miller-Meeks’s 29 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Miller-Meeks caucused with in the 117th Congress.

Compare to all House Freshmen (87th percentile); House Republicans (80th percentile); All Representatives (61st percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
 

Got influential cosponsors the 6th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 6 others)

8 of Miller-Meeks’s bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: H.Res. 318: Expressing the sense of the …; H.Res. 484: Expressing the sense of the …; H.R. 4248: Workflex in the 21st Century …; H.R. 4300: Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks …; H.R. 4571: SERVICE Act of 2021; H.R. 5529: Veterans Justice Outreach Improvement Act; H.R. 8230: BUILD IT Act; H.R. 9012: Stay Off My Line Act

Compare to all House Freshmen (90th percentile); House Republicans (94th percentile); All Representatives (86th percentile).

 

Cosponsored the 9th most bills compared to House Republicans

Miller-Meeks cosponsored 559 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all House Freshmen (89th percentile); House Republicans (96th percentile); All Representatives (80th percentile).

 

Ranked the 9th top leader compared to House Freshmen

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Miller-Meeks’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all House Freshmen (88th percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); All Representatives (67th percentile).

 

Introduced the 10th most bills compared to House Freshmen (tied with 1 other)

Miller-Meeks introduced 29 bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress. View Bills »

Compare to all House Freshmen (85th percentile); House Republicans (77th percentile); All Representatives (64th percentile).

 

Wrote the 8th most laws compared to House Republicans (tied with 8 others)

Miller-Meeks introduced 3 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 117th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills »

Those bills were: H.R. 2591: DUMP Opioids Act; H.R. 4571: SERVICE Act of 2021; H.R. 5529: Veterans Justice Outreach Improvement Act

Compare to all House Freshmen (86th percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (80th percentile).

The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
 

Ranked 16th most politically right compared to All Representatives

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Miller-Meeks’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all House Freshmen (92nd percentile); House Republicans (93rd percentile); All Representatives (96th percentile).

 

Got their bills out of committee the 14th most often compared to House Republicans (tied with 8 others)

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Miller-Meeks introduced 5 bills in the 117th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.R. 2591: DUMP Opioids Act; H.R. 3263: DHS Medical Countermeasures Act; H.R. 4300: Alexander Lofgren Veterans in Parks …; H.R. 4571: SERVICE Act of 2021; H.R. 5529: Veterans Justice Outreach Improvement Act

Compare to all House Freshmen (85th percentile); House Republicans (90th percentile); All Representatives (71st percentile).

 

Got the 33rd most cosponsors on their bills compared to House Republicans

Miller-Meeks’s bills and resolutions had 437 cosponsors in the 117th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all House Freshmen (83rd percentile); House Republicans (85th percentile); All Representatives (69th percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 74th most often compared to All Representatives

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 559 bills that Miller-Meeks cosponsored, 31% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all House Freshmen (80th percentile); House Republicans (67th percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Committee Positions

Miller-Meeks held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Miller-Meeks’s Profile »

Compare to all House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Miller-Meeks missed 1.0% of votes (10 of 998 votes) in the 117th Congress. View Miller-Meeks’s Profile »

Compare to all House Freshmen (58th percentile); All Representatives (47th percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 117th Congress) was the 117th Congress (freshmen) or 116th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.