Rep. Ron Kind

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Kind 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Kind has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Aug 12, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Ron Kind sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Ways and Means
  Health, Trade subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Kind was the primary sponsor of 16 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 2094: Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act
• H.R. 5534 (116th): Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2020
• H.R. 6214 (116th): To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of testing for COVID-19 at no cost sharing under the Medicare Advantage program.
• H.R. 1922 (116th): Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2019
• H.R. 3425 (116th): Advancing Medical Resident Training in Community Hospitals Act of 2019
• H.R. 1222 (116th): Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act
• H.R. 2594 (116th): Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2019

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Does 16 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

Kind sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (44%) Health (28%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Kind recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8666: To amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to impose limitations on the …
• H.R. 7467: Opportunity Zones Improvement, Transparency, and Extension Act
• H.R. 7213: Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
• H.R. 6738: Retirement Tax Credit Parity for Cooperatives and Charities Act
• H.Con.Res. 65: Expressing the sense of the Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit societies have historically …
• H.R. 6226: Grave Injustice Parity Act
• H.R. 6109: Middle Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act of 2021

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Aug 2022, Kind missed 508 of 16,531 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.1% 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