Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Grijalva has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Grijalva is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Grijalva for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Raúl Grijalva sits on the following committees:
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Ranking Member,
House Committee on Natural Resources
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Federal Lands
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans
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House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Member, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
- Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Grijalva sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (35%) Education (27%) Immigration (8%) International Affairs (8%) Native Americans (6%) Health (6%) Government Operations and Politics (6%) Economics and Public Finance (4%)
Recent Bills
Some of Grijalva’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5695: Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2016
- H.R. 5556: Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act
- H.R. 5488: Voting Access Act
- H.R. 5379: RESPECT Act
- H.R. 5373: LGBT Data Inclusion Act
- H.Res. 708: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the immigration policies of ...
- H.Res. 663: Supporting the goals and ideals of “National Middle Level Education Month”.
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Voting Record
From Jan 2003 to Sep 2016, Grijalva missed 684 of 10,053 roll call votes, which is 6.8%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 6 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills