Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Pennsylvania's 7th District
Democrat
Served Nov 13, 2018 – Jan 3, 2019
These statistics cover Scanlon’s record during the 115th Congress (Nov 13, 2018-Jan 3, 2019) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 20, 2019.
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 Scanlon’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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Joined bipartisan bills the least often compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Of the 14 bills that Scanlon cosponsored, 0% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Introduced the fewest bills compared to Pennsylvania Delegation (tied with 1 other)Scanlon introduced 1 bill and resolution in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (4th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (1st percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the fewest bills compared to Pennsylvania Delegation (tied with 1 other)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 0 of Scanlon’s 1 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Scanlon caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Got the fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to Pennsylvania Delegation (tied with 1 other)Scanlon’s bills and resolutions had 0 cosponsors in the 115th 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 Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 6th fewest bills compared to All RepresentativesScanlon cosponsored 14 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 Pennsylvania Delegation (6th percentile); House Freshmen (6th percentile); House Democrats (1st percentile); All Representatives (1st percentile). |
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Was 105th most present in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Scanlon missed 1.2% of votes (1 of 84 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Scanlon’s Profile » Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (33rd percentile); House Freshmen (45th percentile); All Representatives (24th 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. |
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Laws EnactedScanlon introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 115th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th 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. |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Scanlon introduced 0 bills in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Powerful Cosponsors0 of Scanlon’s bills and resolutions in the 115th 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. Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsScanlon 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 Scanlon’s Profile » Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Scanlon supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Scanlon 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Compare to all Pennsylvania Delegation (0th percentile); House Freshmen (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th 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 the 115th Congress) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
