Rep. Mike Rogers’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Alabama's 3rd District
Republican
Serving Jan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Rogers’s record during the 115th Congress (Jan 3, 2017-Jan 3, 2019) and compare him 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 Rogers’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 10th least often compared to All RepresentativesOf the 121 bills that Rogers cosponsored, 4% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (2nd percentile); House Republicans (3rd percentile); All Representatives (2nd 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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Cosponsored the 17th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 1 other)Rogers cosponsored 121 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 Alabama Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (9th percentile); House Republicans (15th percentile); All Representatives (10th percentile). |
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Got the 18th fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to Serving 10+ YearsRogers’s bills and resolutions had 52 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 Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (9th percentile); House Republicans (14th percentile); All Representatives (12th percentile). |
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Got their bills out of committee the 28th least often compared to House Republicans (tied with 26 others)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Rogers introduced 2 bills in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 2470: Homeland Threat Assessment Act; H.R. 4577: Domestic Explosives Detection Canine Capacity … Compare to all Alabama Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (30th percentile); House Republicans (11th percentile); All Representatives (27th percentile). |
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Was 45th most present in votes compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 3 others)Rogers missed 1.6% of votes (19 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Rogers’s Profile » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (24th percentile); All Representatives (31st 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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Introduced the 49th fewest bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 14 others)Rogers introduced 8 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (12th percentile); House Republicans (11th percentile); All Representatives (11th percentile). |
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Got influential cosponsors the 44th least often compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 26 others)2 of Rogers’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. Those bills were: H.R. 2470: Homeland Threat Assessment Act; H.R. 4577: Domestic Explosives Detection Canine Capacity … Compare to all Alabama Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (23rd percentile); House Republicans (29th percentile); All Representatives (26th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 50th fewest bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 32 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 3 of Rogers’s 8 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Rogers caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (11th percentile); House Republicans (12th percentile); All Representatives (11th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Laws EnactedRogers 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 Alabama Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (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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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Compare to all Alabama Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (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 PositionsRogers held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Rogers’s Profile » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (14th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (21st percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Rogers supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Rogers 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Compare to all Alabama Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Republicans (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.
