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Sen. Roger Wicker’s 2022 Report Card

Senior Senator from Mississippi
Republican
Serving Dec 31, 2007 – Jan 3, 2025

These statistics cover Wicker’s record during the 117th Congress (Jan 3, 2021-Jan 3, 2023) and compare him to other senators also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Feb 12, 2023.

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 Wicker’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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Held the most committee positions compared to Senate Republicans

Wicker held a leadership position on 2 committees and 1 subcommittee, 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 Wicker’s Profile »

Compare to all Senate Republicans (98th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (93rd percentile); All Senators (96th percentile).

 

Got their bills out of committee the 6th most often compared to Senate Republicans

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Wicker introduced 23 bills in the 117th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: S. 381: National Ocean Exploration Act; S. 400: William T. Coleman, Jr. and …; S. 558: FLOODS Act; S. 735: Advanced Technological Manufacturing Act; S. 1374: Rural STEM Education Act; S. 1749: Reaching America’s Rural Minority Businesses …; S. 1894: Regional Ocean Partnership Act; S. 2427: FAIR Contributions Act; S. 2923: Fishery Resource Disasters Improvement Act; S. 3196: Improving Protections for Midshipmen Act; S. 3262: FREIGHT Act; S. 3375: Omnibus Travel and Tourism Act …; S. 3785: A bill to amend title …; S. 3817: TORNADO Act; S. 4109: National R & D Strategy …; S.Res. 277: A resolution congratulating the University …; S.Res. 307: A resolution congratulating the Mississippi …; S.Res. 315: A resolution commending the service …; S.Res. 328: A resolution designating August 1, …; S.Res. 353: A resolution designating August 2021 …; S.Res. 710: A resolution congratulating the University …; S.Res. 746: A resolution designating August 2022 …; S.Res. 809: A resolution designating September 30, …

Compare to all Senate Republicans (88th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (74th percentile); All Senators (82nd percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 6th most bills compared to Senate Republicans (tied with 1 other)

In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 45 of Wicker’s 64 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Wicker caucused with in the 117th Congress.

Compare to all Senate Republicans (86th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (75th percentile); All Senators (81st percentile).

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

Cosponsored the 10th most bills compared to Senate Republicans

Wicker cosponsored 412 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 Senate Republicans (80th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (62nd percentile); All Senators (60th percentile).

 

Wrote the 10th most laws compared to All Senators (tied with 2 others)

Wicker introduced 10 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 117th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills »

Those bills were: S. 381: National Ocean Exploration Act; S. 400: William T. Coleman, Jr. and …; S. 558: FLOODS Act; S. 1374: Rural STEM Education Act; S. 1749: Reaching America’s Rural Minority Businesses …; S. 1894: Regional Ocean Partnership Act; S. 2923: Fishery Resource Disasters Improvement Act; S. 3196: Improving Protections for Midshipmen Act; S. 3262: FREIGHT Act; S. 4109: National R & D Strategy …

Compare to all Senate Republicans (86th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (84th percentile); All Senators (88th 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.
 

Got bicameral support on the 8th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 6 others)

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 8 of Wicker’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: RESTAURANTS Act of 2021; S. 373: BENEFIT Act of 2021; S. 1310: Ukraine Religious Freedom Support Act; S. 2923: Fishery Resource Disasters Improvement Act; S. 3100: AQUAA Act; S. 4767: PLAN for Broadband Act; S. 5164: HARM Act; S.Res. 307: A resolution congratulating the Mississippi …

Compare to all Senate Republicans (24th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (11th percentile); All Senators (14th percentile).

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

Ranked 12th most politically right compared to Serving 10+ Years

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 the 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Wicker’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Republicans (42nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (80th percentile); All Senators (71st percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 18th most often compared to All Senators

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 412 bills that Wicker cosponsored, 42% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Senate Republicans (70th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (80th percentile); All Senators (81st percentile).

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

Bills Introduced

Wicker introduced 64 bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress. View Bills »

Compare to all Senate Republicans (66th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (61st percentile); All Senators (58th percentile).

 

Powerful Cosponsors

8 of Wicker’s bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress 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. 92: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion …; S. 255: RESTAURANTS Act of 2021; S. 381: National Ocean Exploration Act; S. 400: William T. Coleman, Jr. and …; S. 735: Advanced Technological Manufacturing Act; S. 3262: FREIGHT Act; S. 4927: Youth Coastal Fishing Program Act …; S.Res. 315: A resolution commending the service …

Compare to all Senate Republicans (74th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (51st percentile); All Senators (58th percentile).

 

Cosponsors

Wicker’s bills and resolutions had 307 cosponsors in the 117th Congress. 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 Senate Republicans (56th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (36th percentile); All Senators (46th 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 the 117th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Wicker’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Republicans (66th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (41st percentile); All Senators (53rd percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Wicker missed 1.5% of votes (14 of 949 votes) in the 117th Congress. View Wicker’s Profile »

Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (36th percentile); All Senators (28th 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 the 117th Congress) was the 117th Congress (freshmen) or 116th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.