Rep. Peter DeFazio

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for DeFazio.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

DeFazio is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 DeFazio sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

DeFazio was the primary sponsor of 30 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 7776 (117th): James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
• H.R. 5763 (117th): Further Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2021
• H.R. 5434 (117th): Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2021
• H.R. 1418 (116th): Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020
• H.R. 8408 (116th): Aircraft Certification Reform and Accountability Act
• H.R. 8504 (116th): Payroll Support Program Extension Act
• H.R. 7575 (116th): Water Resources Development Act of 2020

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Does 30 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

DeFazio sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (41%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Health (9%) Education (8%) Taxation (8%) Social Welfare (6%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

DeFazio recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Con.Res. 119 (117th): Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100.
• H.Con.Res. 113 (117th): Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments …
• H.R. 8005 (117th): Social Security Expansion Act
• H.J.Res. 87 (117th): Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the …
• H.R. 7776 (117th): James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
• H.R. 7509 (117th): Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation Enhancement Act
• H.R. 7321 (117th): Global Aircraft Maintenance Safety Improvement Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Dec 2022, DeFazio missed 862 of 21,891 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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
• United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
• Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills