Sen. Patrick “Pat” Toomey

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Toomey.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Toomey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Toomey has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 17, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Patrick “Pat” Toomey sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittee Chair

  Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, National Security and International Trade and Finance subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Finance
  • Health Care subcommittee Chair

  International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness, Taxation and IRS Oversight subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Budget

Enacted Legislation

Toomey was the primary sponsor of 16 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 3798: Hong Kong Autonomy Act
• S. 479: PACT Act
• S. 2905 (115th): Strengthening Partnerships to Prevent Opioid Abuse Act of 2018
• S. 831 (115th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 West Pike Street in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, as the “Police Officer Scott Bashioum ...
• S. 305 (115th): Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017
• S. 231 (114th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 523 East Railroad Street in Knox, Pennsylvania, as the “Specialist Ross A. McGinnis ...
• S. 238 (114th): Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015

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Does 16 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

Toomey sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (35%) International Affairs (16%) Health (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Immigration (8%) Taxation (6%) Education (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 4497: Stop PPE Taxes Act of 2020
• S.Res. 663: A resolution supporting mask-wearing as an important measure to limit the spread of ...
• S. 4135: HEAL Act
• S. 3989: United States Semiquincentennial Commission Amendments Act of 2020
• S. 3798: Hong Kong Autonomy Act
• S.Res. 509: A resolution calling upon the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution ...
• S. 3296: ALIGN Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Sep 2020, Toomey missed 129 of 2,855 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is much worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills