Sen. Rand Paul

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Paul.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Paul 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 Paul has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 10, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Rand Paul sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Chair, Subcommittee on Children and Families
  • Member, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Chair, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management
  • Member, Subcommittee on Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Member, Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation
  • Member, Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy
  • Member, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
  • Member, Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Paul sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (23%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Environmental Protection (12%) Immigration (10%) Health (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 2962: HELPER Act of 2019
• S. 2923: A bill to modify the criteria used by the Corps of Engineers to ...
• S. 2812: Medicare Patient Empowerment Act of 2019
• S. 2792: Penny Plan to Enhance Infrastructure Act of 2019
• S. 2798: Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019
• S. 2713: Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2019
• S. 2618: Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Dec 2019, Paul missed 110 of 2,638 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. 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.

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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills