Patrick “Pat” Toomey, Senator for Pennsylvania

Toomey is the junior senator from Pennsylvania and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 5, 2011. Toomey is next up for reelection in 2022.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 15^th congressional district as a Republican from 1999 to 2004.

Photo of Sen. Patrick “Pat” Toomey [R-PA]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 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 liberal–conservative 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. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

FreedomWorks: 100% Americans for Prosperity: 96% The Club for Growth: 91% United States Chamber of Commerce: 85% NumbersUSA: 71% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D Human Rights Campaign: 16% American Civil Liberties Union: 11% League of Conservation Voters: 7% NIAC Action: F Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Patrick “Pat” Toomey sits on the following committees:

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Chair, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
- Member, Subcommittee on Economic Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Senate Committee on Finance
- Chair, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
Senate Committee on the Budget

Enacted Legislation

Toomey was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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:

Armed Forces and National Security (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (25%) Finance and Financial Sector (13%) Taxation (10%) International Affairs (9%) Sports and Recreation (6%) Government Operations and Politics (5%) Health (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Toomey’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 2: Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 Jun 28, 2018. Bill Passed 86/11. See the Congressional Research Service's 122-page summary of the bill. * * * H.R. 2 amends and extends major programs for income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, horticulture, and other miscellaneous programs administered by the Department of Agriculture ...
Yea	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Mar 30, 2017. Joint Resolution Passed 51/50. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Yea	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26. The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations bill which extended funding at the previous year's levels up to December 9, 2016 (10 weeks). After this, a continuing ...
Nay	S. 2012: Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 Apr 20, 2016. Bill Passed 85/12. This week, the Senate began debate on the first major energy legislation to be considered since 2007. Introduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the bill -- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act -- received an unlikely overwhelming bipartisan vote when it passed out of ...
Yea	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Jul 30, 2015. Bill Passed 65/34. This vote turned H.R 22, originally the Hire More Heroes Act, into the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647), a major bipartisan transportation bill, and the Export-Import Bank Reform and ...
Nay	H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Dec 16, 2014. Bill Passed 76/16.
Nay	On the Nomination PN1987: Virginia Tyler Lodge, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring May ... Dec 9, 2014. Nomination Confirmed 86/12.
Yea	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 18, 2014. Joint Resolution Passed 78/22.
Yea	H.R. 1540 (112th): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 Dec 15, 2011. Conference Report Agreed to 86/13.
Nay	S. 223 (112th): FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act Feb 17, 2011. Bill Passed 87/8.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Oct 2018, Toomey missed 99 of 2,209 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	46	1	2.2%	61^st
2011 Apr-Jun	58	2	3.4%	63^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	48^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	46^th
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	4	3.7%	91^st
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	2	2.2%	83^rd
2013 Apr-Jun	76	1	1.3%	36^th
2013 Jul-Sep	43	1	2.3%	73^rd
2013 Oct-Dec	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	4	4.3%	84^th
2014 Apr-Jun	123	8	6.5%	74^th
2014 Jul-Sep	54	1	1.9%	61^st
2014 Nov-Dec	96	5	5.2%	80^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	3	2.2%	81^st
2015 Apr-Jun	85	9	10.6%	95^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	4	7.7%	85^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	3	4.5%	82^nd
2016 Jan-Mar	38	7	18.4%	92^nd
2016 Apr-Jun	79	13	16.5%	96^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	1	2.9%	61^st
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	1	1.0%	64^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	4	7.4%	94^th
2017 Jul-Sep	53	2	3.8%	77^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	2	1.7%	69^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	9	14.3%	96^th
2018 Apr-Jun	80	1	1.2%	52^nd
2018 Jul-Sep	75	9	12.0%	95^th
2018 Oct-Oct	21	0	0.0%	0^th

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

Patrick “Pat” Toomey is pronounced:

PAT-chrik // TOO-mee

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
CH ch	chin
EE ee	meet
I i	pin
K k	king
M m	man
OO oo	soon
P p	pen
R r	rag
T t	top

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Sen. Patrick “Pat” Toomey

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