Rep. Mo Brooks’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Alabama's 5th District
Republican
Served Jan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2023
These statistics cover Brooks’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 Brooks’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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Was most absent in votes compared to Alabama DelegationBrooks missed 6.3% of votes (76 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Brooks’s Profile » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (86th percentile); All Representatives (77th 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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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. Brooks introduced 2 bills in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 5345: ALSTAR Act; H.R. 6513: To designate the facility of … Compare to all Alabama Delegation (14th percentile); House Republicans (11th percentile); All Representatives (27th percentile). |
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Introduced the 45th fewest bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 9 others)Brooks introduced 10 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (71st percentile); House Republicans (18th percentile); All Representatives (19th percentile). |
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Got the 52nd fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 2 others)Brooks’s bills and resolutions had 51 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 (29th percentile); House Republicans (13th percentile); All Representatives (12th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 59th least often compared to All RepresentativesOf the 191 bills that Brooks cosponsored, 9% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); House Republicans (24th percentile); All Representatives (13th 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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Ranked the 61st bottom/follower compared to All RepresentativesOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 115th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Brooks’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); House Republicans (14th percentile); All Representatives (14th 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 Brooks’s 10 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Brooks caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd 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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Ranked 72nd most politically right compared to All RepresentativesOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 115th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Brooks’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Alabama Delegation (71st percentile); House Republicans (70th percentile); All Representatives (84th percentile). |
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Laws EnactedBrooks introduced 1 bill 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. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 6513: To designate the facility of … Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); House Republicans (22nd percentile); All Representatives (34th 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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Powerful Cosponsors2 of Brooks’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. 2186: EL CHAPO Act; H.R. 5345: ALSTAR Act Compare to all Alabama Delegation (29th percentile); House Republicans (29th percentile); All Representatives (26th percentile). |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 2186: EL CHAPO Act Compare to all Alabama Delegation (43rd percentile); House Republicans (16th percentile); All Representatives (15th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsBrooks 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 Brooks’s Profile » Compare to all Alabama Delegation (14th percentile); House Republicans (37th percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Bills CosponsoredBrooks cosponsored 191 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 (57th percentile); House Republicans (44th percentile); All Representatives (27th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Brooks supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Brooks 2 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Brooks cosponsored H.R. 24: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of …; H.R. 4494: Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund … Compare to all Alabama Delegation (57th percentile); House Republicans (47th percentile); All Representatives (43rd 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.
