Rep. Mike Gallagher

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Gallagher.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Gallagher 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 Gallagher has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Nov 27, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Gallagher sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittees
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  Aviation, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Highways and Transit subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 3342 (115th): Sanctioning the Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act
• H.R. 873 (115th): Global War on Terrorism War Memorial Act

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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

Gallagher sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (28%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Health (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Immigration (6%) Taxation (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 8800: To prohibit the trading of the securities of certain Communist Chinese military companies ...
• H.R. 8663: Chinese Communist Party Influence Transparency Act
• H.R. 8536: Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act
• H.R. 8486: Student Empowerment and Financial Literacy Act
• H.R. 8296: Nuclear Energy Reactor Demonstration Act
• H.R. 7423: Taiwan Defense Act
• H.Res. 974: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Hong Kong national ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Nov 2020, Gallagher missed 51 of 2,138 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% 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
• Wikipedia entry on Mike Gallagher for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills