Rep. Rodney Davis

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Davis.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Davis is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Davis has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to May 22, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Rodney Davis sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on House Administration Ranking Member
  • Elections subcommittee Ranking Member
  • Elections subcommittee Ranking Member
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Highways and Transit subcommittee Ranking Member

  Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials subcommittees
• House Committee on Agriculture
  Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations subcommittees
• House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress

Enacted Legislation

Davis was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 5935 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1355 North Meridian Road in Harristown, Illinois, as the “Logan S. Palmer Post Office”.
• H.R. 5071: Agricultural Research Advisory Board Improvement Act
• H.R. 22 (114th): FAST Act
• H.R. 1707 (113th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 302 East Green Street in Champaign, Illinois, as the “James R. Burgess Jr. Post Office ...
• H.R. 2383 (113th): To designate the new Interstate Route 70 bridge over the Mississippi River connecting St. Louis, Missouri, and southwestern Illinois as the “Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge”.
• H.R. 420 (113th): To designate the new Interstate Route 70 bridge over the Mississippi River connecting St. Louis, Missouri and southwestern Illinois as the “Stan Musial Memorial Bridge”.

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Does 6 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

Davis sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (26%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Education (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Health (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Environmental Protection (4%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 6968: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to authorize the ...
• H.R. 6882: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit payments under ...
• H.R. 6809: To prohibit health care providers that receive funding through the Public Health and ...
• H.R. 6810: To establish a Health Care Protection Program Fund to provide grants to employers ...
• H.R. 6440: Pandemic Rapid Response Act
• H.R. 6441: Protecting Civil Employment for Our National Guard Act
• H.Res. 878: Encouraging people in the United States to recognize Monday, March 2, 2020, as ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to May 2020, Davis missed 122 of 4,549 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives 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