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Sen. Robert “Bob” Casey’s 2019 Report Card

Senior Senator from Pennsylvania
Democrat
Serving Jan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2025

These year-end statistics cover Casey’s record during the 2019 legislative year (Jan 3, 2019-Dec 31, 2019) and compare him to other senators serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 18, 2020.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Casey’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

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Got bicameral support on the 4th most bills compared to All Senators (tied with 1 other)

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 27 of Casey’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the House. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: S. 255: Disability Employment Incentive Act; S. 260: Transformation to Competitive Employment Act; S. 485: Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination …; S. 651: ABLE Age Adjustment Act; S. 691: Medicare Extra Rx HELP Act …; S. 917: Stop HATE Act of 2019; S. 984: Safe Equitable Campus Resources and …; S. 1026: Tax Fairness for Workers Act; S. 1176: Expanding Disability Access to Higher …; S. 1280: BENES Act of 2019; S. 1352: Resources for Victims of Gun …; S. 1353: Speak Up to Protect Every …; S. 1462: Disarm Hate Act; S. 1585: RISE Act of 2019; S. 1638: National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program …; S. 1650: Fostering Success in Higher Education …; S. 1652: Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act …; S. 1654: Vaccine Access Improvement Act of …; S. 1686: Know Conflicts Act of 2019; S. 1697: Immediate Coverage for Former Foster …; S. 1698: Expanded Coverage for Former Foster …; S. 1792: United States Call Center Worker …; S. 1902: Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky …; S. 2217: Driver Fatigue Prevention Act; S. 2496: Stop the Wait Act; S. 2692: School Modernization and Efficient Access …; S. 3015: Locality Pay Equity Act of …

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (95th percentile); Senate Democrats (89th percentile); All Senators (95th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Introduced the 7th most bills compared to All Senators

Casey introduced 73 bills and resolutions in 2019. View Bills »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (88th percentile); Senate Democrats (87th percentile); All Senators (93rd percentile).

 

Held the 6th most committee positions compared to All Senators (tied with 2 others)

Casey held a leadership position on 1 committee and 3 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. For comparison to other Members of Congress, we assigned a score giving five points for each full committee leadership position and one point for each subcommittee leadership position. View Casey’s Profile »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (83rd percentile); Senate Democrats (91st percentile); All Senators (92nd percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 17th most bills compared to All Senators (tied with 3 others)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 29 of Casey’s 73 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Casey caucused with in 2019.

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); Senate Democrats (78th percentile); All Senators (80th percentile).

Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
 

Got influential cosponsors the 15th most often compared to All Senators (tied with 8 others)

8 of Casey’s bills and resolutions in 2019 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: S. 651: ABLE Age Adjustment Act; S. 931: Child and Dependent Care Tax …; S. 1130: Scarlett’s Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected …; S. 1173: Emergency Medical Services for Children …; S. 1462: Disarm Hate Act; S. 1648: Supporting Veteran Caregivers Act of …; S. 2020: SEE MORE Act; S. 2548: Safe Schools Improvement Act of …

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); Senate Democrats (69th percentile); All Senators (77th percentile).

 

Got the 22nd most cosponsors on their bills compared to All Senators

Casey’s bills and resolutions had 369 cosponsors in 2019. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (64th percentile); Senate Democrats (58th percentile); All Senators (78th percentile).

 

Laws Enacted

Casey introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2019. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile).

The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill.
 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Casey introduced 7 bills in 2019 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: S. 149: Stop Senior Scams Act; S. 1130: Scarlett’s Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected …; S. 1173: Emergency Medical Services for Children …; S.Res. 31: A resolution honoring the life …; S.Res. 103: A resolution designating March 27, …; S.Res. 114: A resolution expressing support for …; S.Res. 117: A resolution designating March 22, …

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (36th percentile); Senate Democrats (60th percentile); All Senators (53rd percentile).

 

Bills Cosponsored

Casey cosponsored 333 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); Senate Democrats (44th percentile); All Senators (74th percentile).

 

Joining Bipartisan Bills

Of the 333 bills that Casey cosponsored, 29% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (63rd percentile); Senate Democrats (69th percentile); All Senators (59th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Ideology Score

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2019 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Casey’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (40th percentile); Senate Democrats (69th percentile); All Senators (32nd percentile).

 

Leadership Score

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2019 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Casey’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (45th percentile); Senate Democrats (58th percentile); All Senators (64th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Casey missed 0.0% of votes (0 of 428 votes) in 2019. View Casey’s Profile »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile).

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2019) was the 116th Congress (freshmen) or 115th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.