Rep. Rob Bishop

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Bishop.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bishop is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2020 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 Bishop sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 28, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Bishop was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 644 (116th): Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act of 2020
• H.R. 54 (116th): To designate the outstation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in North Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent Taylor Vet Center Outstation.
• H.R. 5956 (115th): Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018
• H.R. 1800 (115th): To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain Federal land to facilitate scientific research supporting Federal space and defense programs.
• H.R. 5133 (115th): Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2018
• H.R. 4680 (114th): National Park Service Centennial Act
• H.R. 5468 (114th): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment obligations under Repayment Contracts between the United States and the Weber Basin Water Conservancy …

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Does 15 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

Bishop sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (41%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Native Americans (9%) Animals (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bishop recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8288 (116th): Improving the Not-So-Great American Outdoors Act
• H.R. 7398 (116th): To establish the Western Emergency Refined Petroleum Products Reserve.
• H.Res. 845 (116th): Recognizing that international education and exchange programs further national security and foreign …
• H.Res. 804 (116th): Recognizing the leading role of Utahns in the fight for women’s suffrage …
• H.R. 5493 (116th): To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service …
• H.R. 5474 (116th): Shawnee Wilderness Designation Act
• H.Res. 659 (116th): Affirming that States should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2003 to Dec 2020, Bishop missed 810 of 12,265 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2020. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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