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Rep. Mark Meadows’s 2015 Report Card

Representative from North Carolina's 11th District
Republican
Served Jan 3, 2013 – Mar 30, 2020

These year-end statistics cover Meadows’s record during the 2015 legislative year (Jan 6, 2015-Dec 31, 2015) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 9, 2016.

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 Meadows’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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Ranked the 3rd bottom/follower compared to North Carolina Delegation

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 2015 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Meadows’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (15th percentile); House Sophomores (32nd percentile); House Republicans (28th percentile); Safe House Seats (35th percentile); All Representatives (36th percentile).

 

Got their bills out of committee the 5th most often compared to House Sophomores (tied with 4 others)

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Meadows introduced 2 bills in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.R. 901: Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act; H.R. 4180: Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics …

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (77th percentile); House Sophomores (88th percentile); House Republicans (65th percentile); Safe House Seats (77th percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile).

 

Got the 15th fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to House Sophomores (tied with 1 other)

Meadows’s bills and resolutions had 63 cosponsors in 2015. 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 North Carolina Delegation (23rd percentile); House Sophomores (19th percentile); House Republicans (30th percentile); Safe House Seats (26th percentile); All Representatives (28th percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 17th least often compared to House Sophomores

Of the 168 bills that Meadows cosponsored, 11% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (31st percentile); House Sophomores (22nd percentile); House Republicans (57th percentile); Safe House Seats (35th percentile); All Representatives (33rd percentile).

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

Ranked 77th 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 2015 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Meadows’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (62nd percentile); House Sophomores (81st percentile); House Republicans (69th percentile); Safe House Seats (81st percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile).

 

Laws Enacted

Meadows introduced 0 bills that became law in 2015. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively.
 

Bills Introduced

Meadows introduced 11 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills »

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (54th percentile); House Sophomores (51st percentile); House Republicans (57th percentile); Safe House Seats (54th percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile).

 

Powerful Cosponsors

0 of Meadows’s bills and resolutions in 2015 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.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 0 of Meadows’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.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

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

Writing Bipartisan Bills

Meadows tends to gather cosponsors only on one side of the aisle. 36% of Meadows’s 11 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2015.

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (33rd percentile); House Sophomores (50th percentile); House Republicans (35th percentile); Safe House Seats (50th percentile); All Representatives (48th percentile).

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

Committee Positions

Meadows held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Meadows’s Profile »

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (54th percentile); House Sophomores (64th percentile); House Republicans (38th percentile); Safe House Seats (36th percentile); All Representatives (38th percentile).

 

Bills Cosponsored

Meadows cosponsored 168 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 North Carolina Delegation (46th percentile); House Sophomores (32nd percentile); House Republicans (65th percentile); Safe House Seats (46th percentile); All Representatives (47th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Meadows missed 1.8% of votes (13 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Meadows’s Profile »

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (38th percentile); House Sophomores (58th percentile); Safe House Seats (49th percentile); All Representatives (51st 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.
 

Government Transparency

GovTrack looked at whether Meadows supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Meadows 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Meadows cosponsored H.R. 2395: Inspector General Empowerment Act of …

Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (38th percentile); House Sophomores (33rd percentile); House Republicans (69th percentile); Safe House Seats (41st percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile).

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 2015) was the 114th Congress (freshmen) or 113th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.