Rep. Mark Takano

Oversight & Investigations

• Mar-a-lago attendees’ influence over the Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  Three members of President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago golf resort have been accused of influencing policy and personnel decisions at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA), despite never having held a military or government position. Rep. Mark Takano, chair of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, has begun an investigation into the relationship of the so called Mar-A-Lago “three” and the VA.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Takano.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mark Takano sits on the following committees:

• Chair, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
• House Committee on Education and Labor
  • Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment
  • Member, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections

Enacted Legislation

Takano was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 299: Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019
• H.R. 2068: Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Education Relief and Restoration Act of 2017

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Does 2 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

Takano sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (39%) Energy (15%) Education (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Labor and Employment (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4426: To rename the Office of Technology Assessment as the Congressional Office of Technology, ...
• H.R. 4394: To prohibit Federal funds from being used to violate the terms of the ...
• H.R. 4368: To prohibit the use of trade secrets privileges to prevent defense access to ...
• H.R. 4206: Student and Taxpayer Protection Act
• H.R. 3487: Protections and Regulation for Our Students Act
• H.R. 3197: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019
• H.Res. 434: Expressing the appreciation of the House of Representatives for Robert E. Wallace, retiring ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Sep 2019, Takano missed 31 of 4,277 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better 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