Rodney Davis, Representative for Illinois's 13th Congressional District

Davis is the representative for Illinois’s 13^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. Davis is next up for reelection in 2018.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 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. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

United States Chamber of Commerce: 90% Americans for Prosperity: 76% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B FreedomWorks: 58% The Club for Growth: 56% NumbersUSA: 37% Human Rights Campaign: 32% NIAC Action: D American Civil Liberties Union: 5% League of Conservation Voters: 5% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 5%

Committee Membership

Rodney Davis sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Agriculture
- Chair, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition
House Committee on House Administration
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
- Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Enacted Legislation

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

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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 (28%) Education (17%) Transportation and Public Works (15%) Social Welfare (9%) Agriculture and Food (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Health (7%) Emergency Management (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Davis’s Vote	Vote Description
No	S. 140: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund. Jan 10, 2018. Passed 239/173. The Rules Committee Print includes the text of S. 140, to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund, S. 249, a bill to provide that the pueblo of Santa ...
Nay	H.R. 511: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015 Nov 17, 2015. Passed 249/177.
Not Voting	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
No	H.R. 1806: America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 May 20, 2015. Passed 217/205.
Yea	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...
Nay	H.R. 5699 (113th): John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act Dec 11, 2014. Passed 361/39.
Yea	H.R. 83 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 Dec 11, 2014. Passed 219/206. This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December 11, 2014 and by the Senate on December 13, 2014. The bill was originally introduced on January 3, 2013 by ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Nay	H.R. 624 (113th): Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Apr 18, 2013. Passed 288/127. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA H.R. 3523 (112th Congress), H.R. 624 (113th Congress), H.R. 234 (114th Congress)) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and ...
Nay	H.R. 297 (113th): Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 Feb 4, 2013. Passed 352/50.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Jul 2018, Davis missed 94 of 3,604 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is on par with the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2013 Jan-Mar	89	2	2.2%	58^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	7	3.3%	67^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	3	1.5%	52^nd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	2	1.5%	43^rd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	3	2.0%	52^nd
2014 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	44^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	8	5.4%	83^rd
2014 Nov-Dec	49	1	2.0%	55^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	1	0.7%	26^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	10	4.1%	81^st
2015 Jul-Sep	139	1	0.7%	34^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	2	1.1%	52^nd
2016 Jan-Mar	137	5	3.6%	57^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	1	0.5%	19^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	4	1.7%	63^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	1	2.1%	61^st
2017 Jan-Mar	208	8	3.8%	78^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	2	1.5%	45^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	26	13.1%	93^rd
2017 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	24^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	1	0.8%	24^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	28^th
2018 Jul-Jul	52	0	0.0%	0^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Rodney Davis is pronounced:

ROD-nee // DAY-vis

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
AY ay	say
D d	day
EE ee	meet
I i	pin
N n	not
O o	top
R r	rag
S s	sit
V v	van

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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