Rep. Nydia Velázquez

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Velázquez 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 Velázquez has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 5, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Nydia Velázquez sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Small Business Chair
• House Committee on Financial Services
  Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Housing, Community Development, and Insurance subcommittees
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  Oversight and Investigations, Water, Oceans, and Wildlife subcommittees
• House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

Enacted Legislation

Velázquez was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 7352: PPP and Bank Fraud Enforcement Harmonization Act of 2022
• H.R. 1192: Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy in Disclosures Act of 2021
• H.R. 3867 (116th): Violence Against Women Veterans Act
• H.R. 4463 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6 Doyers Street in New York, New York, as the “Mabel Lee Memorial Post Office”.
• H.R. 5236 (115th): Main Street Employee Ownership Act of 2018
• H.R. 5178 (115th): Puerto Rico Small Business Contracting Assistance Act of 2018
• H.R. 3294 (115th): HUBZone Unification and Business Stability Act of 2017

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Does 17 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

Velázquez sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (28%) Finance and Financial Sector (17%) Health (16%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Housing and Community Development (8%) Education (7%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Velázquez recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 9347: Main Street Employee Ownership 2.0 Act of 2022
• H.R. 9323: Lifting American Children From Poverty Act
• H.R. 9086: Puerto Rico Recovery Act
• H.Con.Res. 109: Expressing support for the recognition of September 26, 2022, as “World Contraception Day” …
• H.Res. 1376: Marking the 5-year anniversary of the devastation of Puerto Rico and the United …
• H.R. 8765: BAN OPs From Our Food Act
• H.R. 8482: Collateral Requirements for Disaster Loans Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1993 to Dec 2022, Velázquez missed 732 of 19,062 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than 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 Nydia Velázquez for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills