Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Krishnamoorthi.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Krishnamoorthi is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Krishnamoorthi has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Raja Krishnamoorthi sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • Economic and Consumer Policy subcommittee Chair

  Environment subcommittees
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  Intelligence Modernization and Readiness, Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Krishnamoorthi was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 1844: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 66 Grove Court in Elgin, Illinois, as the “Corporal Alex Martinez Memorial Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 4574 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 108 West Schick Road in Bloomingdale, Illinois, as the “Bloomingdale Veterans Memorial Post Office Building”.

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Does 2 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

Krishnamoorthi sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (28%) Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Health (14%) Education (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) International Affairs (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Taxation (6%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5963: E-Cigarette Oversight and Accountability Act of 2020
• H.R. 5482: PREVENT Act of 2020
• H.R. 5286: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a ...
• H.R. 5241: Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act
• H.R. 5012: Investing in American Workers Act
• H.R. 4624: Ending Nicotine Dependence from Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Act of 2019
• H.Res. 595: Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Feb 2020, Krishnamoorthi missed 5 of 1,986 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives 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
• Office of Raja Krishnamoorthi for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills