Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Kind has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Kind is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Kind for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Ron Kind sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Kind sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (34%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Education (10%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Agriculture and Food (8%) Health (8%) Sports and Recreation (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Kind’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5742: Uniting Families Act of 2016
- H.R. 5566: Wasteful Defense Spending Reduction Act of 2016
- H.R. 5489: Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act of 2016
- H.R. 4943: Tribal Tax and Investment Reform Act of 2016
- H.R. 4868: Rural Main Street Investment Credit Act of 2016
- H.R. 4397: Rail Safety Act
- H.R. 4286: Campaign Transparency Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1997 to Sep 2016, Kind missed 362 of 13,439 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 84 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills