Rep. Neal Dunn

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Dunn.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Dunn 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 Dunn has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Nov 24, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Neal Dunn sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research subcommittee Ranking Member

  Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit subcommittees
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Health subcommittee Ranking Member

Enacted Legislation

Dunn was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 425: Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act
• H.R. 5787 (115th): Strengthening Coastal Communities Act of 2018
• H.R. 3832 (115th): Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act

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Does 3 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

Dunn sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (39%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (22%) Science, Technology, Communications (13%) Emergency Management (13%) Taxation (13%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 8701: FEMA Loan Interest Payment Relief Act
• H.R. 8443: Cottage Homes to Improve Lives for Dependents (CHILD) Act
• H.R. 6092: Veteran’s Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act
• H.R. 6093: To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the ...
• H.R. 5059: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to ...
• H.R. 4604: Small Financial Institution Certainty Act
• H.R. 4503: VA Workplace Integrity Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Nov 2020, Dunn missed 77 of 2,138 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than 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
• Office of Neal Dunn for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills