Rep. Michael Guest

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Guest 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Guest has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 7, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Michael Guest sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Ethics
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations, Intelligence and Counterterrorism subcommittees
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, Highways and Transit subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 2246 (116th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 West Cherokee Street in Brookhaven, Mississippi, as the “Deputy Donald William Durr, Corporal Zach …
• H.R. 1590 (116th): Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2019

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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

Guest sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (30%) Crime and Law Enforcement (25%) International Affairs (20%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Guest recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 9473: To require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to regularly review …
• H.Res. 1460: Honoring the service and sacrifice of America’s veterans on Veterans Day, 2022.
• H.Res. 1448: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
• H.R. 9167: Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2022
• H.Res. 1255: Expressing continued support for all U.S. Border Patrol agents who carry out the …
• H.R. 8207: Border Enforcement Security Task Force Reauthorization Act of 2022
• H.Res. 1114: Expressing support for recognizing “National Police Week”.

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Dec 2022, Guest missed 113 of 1,903 roll call votes, which is 5.9%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% 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
• Office of Michael Guest for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills