Ron DeSantis, Representative for Florida's 6th Congressional District

DeSantis is the representative for Florida’s 6^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2013. DeSantis is next up for reelection in 2018.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for DeSantis.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

DeSantis 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 DeSantis has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Americans for Prosperity: 98% FreedomWorks: 95% The Club for Growth: 92% NumbersUSA: 87% United States Chamber of Commerce: 75% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B NIAC Action: D American Civil Liberties Union: 5% League of Conservation Voters: 2% Human Rights Campaign: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Committee Membership

Ron DeSantis sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Chair, Subcommittee on National Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Government Operations
House Committee on the Judiciary
- Vice Chair, Subcommittee on The Constitution and Civil Justice
- Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa
- Member, Subcommittee on The Western Hemisphere

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

DeSantis sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (30%) International Affairs (22%) Education (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%) Health (7%) Social Welfare (7%) Law (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

DeSantis’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	S. 1252: Global Food Security Act of 2016 Jul 6, 2016. Passed 369/53. The Global Food Security Act of 2016 (Pub.L. 114–195), is a law introduced on March 24, 2015 in the 114th Congress by Representative Christopher Henry "Chris" Smith (New Jersey-R) and on May 7, 2015 by Senator Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey Jr. (Pennsylvania-D), and signed by ...
No	H.R. 3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Jul 15, 2015. Passed 312/119.
Aye	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. ...
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.J.Res. 35: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes. Feb 27, 2015. Failed 203/224.
Nay	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 ...
Yea	H.R. 4681 (113th): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 Dec 10, 2014. Passed 325/100.
No	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
Nay	S. 1603 (113th): Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act Sep 16, 2014. Passed 359/64.
No	H.R. 5021 (113th): Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 Jul 15, 2014. Passed 367/55.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Jul 2018, DeSantis missed 138 of 3,618 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than 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	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	26^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	2	1.4%	40^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	1	2.0%	55^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	4	1.6%	58^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	1	0.7%	34^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	11	6.2%	91^st
2016 Jan-Mar	137	3	2.2%	44^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	3	1.5%	40^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	4	1.7%	63^rd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	6	12.5%	93^rd
2017 Jan-Mar	208	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	3	2.2%	59^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	33	16.6%	94^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	17	10.2%	91^st
2018 Jan-Mar	129	12	9.3%	84^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	8	4.3%	65^th
2018 Jul-Jul	66	29	43.9%	97^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

Ron DeSantis is pronounced:

ron // duh-SAN-tus

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
D d	day
N n	not
O o	top
R r	rag
S s	sit
T t	top
U u	cup
UH uh	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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