Sen. Raphael Warnock

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Warnock is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Warnock has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 1, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Raphael Warnock sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  • Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade subcommittee Chair

  Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee Chair

  Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittees
• Joint Economic Committee
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation, Communications, Media, and Broadband, Space and Science, Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Enacted Legislation

Warnock was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• S. 4011: Capping Drug Costs for Seniors Act of 2022
• S. 1031: A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on disparities associated with race and ethnicity with respect to certain benefits administered …
• S. 3033: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 Crown Road Southwest in Atlanta, Georgia, as the “John R. Lewis Post Office …
• S. 1675: Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act

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Does 4 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

Warnock sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (29%) Health (26%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Taxation (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%) Labor and Employment (5%) Housing and Community Development (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Warnock recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 5020: Affordable Electric Vehicles for America Act of 2022
• S.Con.Res. 48: A concurrent resolution recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity in …
• S. 4841: Love Lives On Act of 2022
• S. 4737: Housing Market Transparency Act
• S. 4722: American Dream Down Payment Act of 2022
• S. 4728: Rent Relief Act of 2022
• S. 4564: BAH Calculation Improvement Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Dec 2022, Warnock missed 38 of 898 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% 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
• Office of Sen. Warnock for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills