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Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s 2020 Report Card

Representative from Washington's 7th District
Democrat
Serving Jan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2025

These statistics cover Jayapal’s record during the 116th Congress (Jan 3, 2019-Jan 3, 2021) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 30, 2021.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Jayapal’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Got influential cosponsors the most often compared to House Sophomores

15 of Jayapal’s bills and resolutions in the 116th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: H.Res. 1153: Condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures …; H.R. 242: To repeal the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go …; H.R. 1384: Medicare for All Act of …; H.R. 2034: Dignity Act; H.R. 2415: Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act …; H.R. 3131: South Asian Heart Health Awareness …; H.R. 3760: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights …; H.R. 4701: HEAL for Immigrant Women and …; H.R. 5581: Access to Counsel Act of …; H.R. 6537: FIRST Act; H.R. 6674: Medicare Crisis Program Act of …; H.R. 6906: Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act; H.R. 6918: Paycheck Recovery Act of 2020; H.R. 8357: Apprenticeship Futures for All Act; H.J.Res. 48: Proposing an amendment to the …

Compare to all Washington Delegation (90th percentile); House Sophomores (98th percentile); House Democrats (92nd percentile); All Representatives (95th percentile).

 

Got the most cosponsors on their bills compared to House Sophomores

Jayapal’s bills and resolutions had 1,317 cosponsors in the 116th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (90th percentile); House Sophomores (98th percentile); House Democrats (92nd percentile); All Representatives (96th percentile).

 

Ranked most politically left compared to House Sophomores

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Jayapal’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Washington Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (2nd percentile); All Representatives (1st percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the least often compared to House Sophomores

Of the 736 bills that Jayapal cosponsored, 4% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (3rd percentile); All Representatives (1st percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Got bicameral support on the 2nd most bills compared to House Sophomores

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 12 of Jayapal’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.Res. 1187: Congratulating the Seattle Storm women’s …; H.R. 1082: SASCA; H.R. 2034: Dignity Act; H.R. 2415: Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act …; H.R. 3760: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights …; H.R. 3906: Detention Oversight, Not Expansion Act; H.R. 4724: Students Not Profits Act of …; H.R. 6537: FIRST Act; H.R. 6906: Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act; H.R. 7076: CORE Act; H.R. 7356: Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology …; H.R. 8774: FAMILIES Act

Compare to all Washington Delegation (90th percentile); House Sophomores (96th percentile); House Democrats (90th percentile); All Representatives (94th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Ranked the 2nd top leader compared to House Sophomores

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Jayapal’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Washington Delegation (90th percentile); House Sophomores (96th percentile); House Democrats (89th percentile); All Representatives (94th percentile).

 

Introduced the 2nd most bills compared to Washington Delegation

Jayapal introduced 31 bills and resolutions in the 116th Congress. View Bills »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (80th percentile); House Sophomores (73rd percentile); House Democrats (60th percentile); All Representatives (74th percentile).

 

Cosponsored the 39th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)

Jayapal cosponsored 736 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (80th percentile); House Sophomores (87th percentile); House Democrats (84th percentile); All Representatives (91st percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 45th fewest bills compared to House Democrats (tied with 10 others)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 7 of Jayapal’s 31 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Jayapal caucused with in the 116th Congress.

Compare to all Washington Delegation (20th percentile); House Sophomores (31st percentile); House Democrats (19th percentile); All Representatives (35th percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
 

Got their bills out of committee the 59th least often compared to House Democrats (tied with 31 others)

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Jayapal introduced 3 bills in the 116th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.Res. 1153: Condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures …; H.R. 3131: South Asian Heart Health Awareness …; H.R. 5581: Access to Counsel Act of …

Compare to all Washington Delegation (50th percentile); House Sophomores (47th percentile); House Democrats (24th percentile); All Representatives (47th percentile).

 

Laws Enacted

Jayapal introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 116th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Washington Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
 

Committee Positions

Jayapal held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Jayapal’s Profile »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (40th percentile); House Sophomores (62nd percentile); House Democrats (40th percentile); All Representatives (42nd percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Jayapal missed 0.9% of votes (9 of 954 votes) in the 116th Congress. View Jayapal’s Profile »

Compare to all Washington Delegation (30th percentile); House Sophomores (29th percentile); All Representatives (26th percentile).

The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics.

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 116th Congress) was the 116th Congress (freshmen) or 115th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.