Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Brooks has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Brooks is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Brooks for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Mo Brooks sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Armed Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Member, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
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House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
- Member, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Brooks sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Immigration (21%) International Affairs (21%) Economics and Public Finance (21%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Science, Technology, Communications (11%)
Recent Bills
Some of Brooks’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4598: American Jobs First Act of 2016
- H.R. 4597: ICE Agent Support Act of 2016
- H.R. 3835: Protecting America’s Solvency Act of 2015
- H.Res. 406: Recognizing the progress made and challenges still faced by people living with albinism ...
- H.R. 3151: Arrest Statistics Reporting Act of 2015
- H.R. 3039: PROTECT US Act
- H.R. 1535: SACO Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 2011 to Sep 2016, Brooks missed 35 of 4,071 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills