Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Gosar has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Gosar is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Gosar for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Paul Gosar sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Member, Subcommittee on Information Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on The Interior
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Gosar sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (32%) Health (12%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (12%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Immigration (8%) Environmental Protection (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) International Affairs (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Gosar’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5836: HEARD Act
- H.R. 5710: Military Amnesty Prevention Act
- H.Con.Res. 136: Expressing the sense of Congress opposing the President’s proposed Coastal Climate Resilience Program.
- H.R. 5141: Central American Amnesty Termination Act of 2016
- H.R. 5035: To reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 4856: To make aliens associated with a criminal gang inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for ...
- H.R. 4786: RPPA Commercial Recreation Concessions Pilot Program Act of 2016
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Voting Record
From Jan 2011 to Sep 2016, Gosar missed 291 of 4,076 roll call votes, which is 7.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 18 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills