Rep. Neal Dunn

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 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 liberal–conservative 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 Sep 20, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Neal Dunn sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Agriculture
  • Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research
  • Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  • Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Health

Enacted Legislation

Dunn was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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

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Does 2 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 (35%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (29%) Science, Technology, Communications (18%) Taxation (18%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4376: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to ...
• H.R. 3790: Residential Recovery Zone Act
• H.R. 3733: To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System the areas ...
• H.R. 2432: Future DATA Act
• H.R. 1047: To give effect to more accurate maps of units of the John H. ...
• H.R. 425: Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act
• H.R. 7166: Hurricane Michael Tax Relief Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Sep 2019, Dunn missed 41 of 1,750 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. 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
• Office of Neal Dunn for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills