Sen. Mike Braun

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Braun.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Braun is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Braun has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jul 2, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Braun sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  • Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources subcommittee Chair

  Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security, Rural Development and Energy subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
  • Clean Air and Nuclear Safety subcommittee Chair

  Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Budget
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  Employment and Workplace Safety, Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Enacted Legislation

Braun was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• S. 1833: Restore the Harmony Way Bridge Act

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Does 1 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

Braun sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (28%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Taxation (14%) Education (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Economics and Public Finance (7%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 4124: A bill to expedite hiring by the Department of Veterans Affairs of medical ...
• S. 4106: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital ...
• S. 4036: A bill to amend the Revised Statutes to reform the defense of qualified ...
• S. 3894: Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020
• S. 3872: Promising Pathway Act
• S. 3834: A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide estimates of ...
• S. 3773: Helping Gig Economy Workers Act of 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jul 2020, Braun missed 3 of 558 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 1.7% 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 Mike Braun for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills