Rep. Mo Brooks

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Brooks.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Brooks 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 liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Brooks has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Aug 23, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mo Brooks sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Member, Subcommittee on Readiness
  • Member, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
• House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Member, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 6513 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1110 West Market Street in Athens, Alabama, as the “Judge James E. Horton, Jr. Post ...

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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

Brooks sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (39%) International Affairs (17%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 3899: TPS Reform Act of 2019
• H.R. 2973: Arrest Statistics Reporting Act of 2019
• H.Res. 253: Recognizing that it is the sense of the United States House of Representatives ...
• H.R. 1399: Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act
• H.R. 1338: End Federal Shutdowns Act of 2019
• H.R. 714: EL CHAPO Act
• H.R. 271: No Work Without Pay Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Jul 2019, Brooks missed 118 of 5,859 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills