Sen. Mark Kelly

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Kelly.

Committee Membership

Mark Kelly sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee Chair

  Airland, Strategic Forces subcommittees
• Joint Economic Committee
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  National Parks, Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, Water and Power subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
  Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Enacted Legislation

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

• S. 3096: Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Modernization Act
• S. 2318: Demand-Response Management Act of 2021
• S. 1672: ROCKS Act

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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

Kelly sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (22%) Health (17%) Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Transportation and Public Works (17%) Emergency Management (9%) Energy (9%) Native Americans (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Kelly recently introduced the following legislation:

• S.Res. 656: A resolution designating May 2022 as “Older Americans Month”.
• S. 4232: A bill to address the recovery of certain costs with respect to certain …
• S. 4152: A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reauthorize …
• S. 3803: Rural Prosperity Act of 2022
• S. 3740: Micro Act of 2022
• S.Con.Res. 31: Transparency in Congress Resolution of 2022
• S. 3636: Strengthening STEM Ecosystems Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Dec 2020 to May 2022, Kelly missed 12 of 785 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of senators 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
• Office of Sen. Kelly for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills