Rep. Roger Williams’s 2015 Report Card
Representative
from Texas's 25th District
Republican
Serving Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2025
These year-end statistics cover Williams’s record during the 2015 legislative year (Jan 6, 2015-Dec 31, 2015) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 9, 2016.
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 Williams’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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Joined bipartisan bills the 5th least often compared to House SophomoresOf the 132 bills that Williams cosponsored, 6% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Texas Delegation (36th percentile); House Sophomores (5th percentile); House Republicans (27th percentile); Safe House Seats (17th percentile); All Representatives (16th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 7th lowest % of bills compared to House RepublicansWilliams tends to gather cosponsors only on one side of the aisle. 13% of Williams’s 15 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2015. Compare to all Texas Delegation (18th percentile); House Sophomores (6th percentile); House Republicans (6th percentile); Safe House Seats (11th percentile); All Representatives (10th percentile). Only Members of Congress who sponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Got influential cosponsors the 6th least often compared to Texas Delegation (tied with 5 others)1 of Williams’s bills and resolutions in 2015 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: H.R. 2643: State Licensing Efficiency Act of … Compare to all Texas Delegation (14th percentile); House Sophomores (16th percentile); House Republicans (22nd percentile); Safe House Seats (20th percentile); All Representatives (21st percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 12th fewest bills compared to House Sophomores (tied with 1 other)Williams cosponsored 132 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 Texas Delegation (36th percentile); House Sophomores (15th percentile); House Republicans (40th percentile); Safe House Seats (28th percentile); All Representatives (27th percentile). |
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Introduced the 12th most bills compared to House Sophomores (tied with 2 others)Williams introduced 15 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills » Compare to all Texas Delegation (72nd percentile); House Sophomores (81st percentile); House Republicans (77th percentile); Safe House Seats (75th percentile); All Representatives (75th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 10th fewest bills compared to Texas Delegation (tied with 8 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 2643: State Licensing Efficiency Act of … Compare to all Texas Delegation (25th percentile); House Sophomores (26th percentile); House Republicans (28th percentile); Safe House Seats (29th percentile); All Representatives (29th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Was 28th most absent in votes compared to All RepresentativesWilliams missed 8.1% of votes (57 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Williams’s Profile » Compare to all Texas Delegation (89th percentile); House Sophomores (90th percentile); Safe House Seats (93rd percentile); All Representatives (94th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. |
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Ranked 74th most politically right compared to All RepresentativesOur 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 2015 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Williams’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Texas Delegation (64th percentile); House Sophomores (82nd percentile); House Republicans (70th percentile); Safe House Seats (82nd percentile); All Representatives (83rd percentile). |
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Laws EnactedWilliams introduced 0 bills that became law in 2015. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all Texas Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Williams introduced 1 bill in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 2643: State Licensing Efficiency Act of … Compare to all Texas Delegation (39th percentile); House Sophomores (49th percentile); House Republicans (31st percentile); Safe House Seats (45th percentile); All Representatives (46th percentile). |
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Committee PositionsWilliams held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Williams’s Profile » Compare to all Texas Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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CosponsorsWilliams’s bills and resolutions had 139 cosponsors in 2015. 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 Texas Delegation (44th percentile); House Sophomores (55th percentile); House Republicans (53rd percentile); Safe House Seats (52nd percentile); All Representatives (53rd percentile). |
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Leadership ScoreOur 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 2015 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Williams’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Texas Delegation (53rd percentile); House Sophomores (73rd percentile); House Republicans (55th percentile); Safe House Seats (65th percentile); All Representatives (66th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Williams supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Williams 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Compare to all Texas Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (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 2015) was the 114th Congress (freshmen) or 113th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
