Ron Kind, Representative for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District

Kind is the representative for Wisconsin’s 3^rd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 7, 1997. Kind is next up for reelection in 2020.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Kind.

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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Mar 18, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Human Rights Campaign: 100% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% American Civil Liberties Union: 94% League of Conservation Voters: 89% NIAC Action: B The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B United States Chamber of Commerce: 50% NumbersUSA: 20% The Club for Growth: 7% Americans for Prosperity: 6% FreedomWorks: 5%

Committee Membership

Ron Kind sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Ways and Means
- Member, Subcommittee on Health
- Member, Subcommittee on Trade

Enacted Legislation

Kind was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

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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 (30%) Health (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Education (11%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Animals (9%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Kind’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 2: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 Dec 12, 2018. Passed 369/47. See the Congressional Research Service's 122-page summary of the bill. * * * H.R. 2 amends and extends major programs for income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, horticulture, and other miscellaneous programs administered by the Department of Agriculture ...
Aye	H.R. 6784: Manage our Wolves Act Nov 16, 2018. Passed 196/180.
Yea	H.R. 6157: Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 Sep 26, 2018. Passed 361/61. H.R. 6157 provides $674.6 billion in total discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The bill provides $606.5 billion for the Department of Defense base budget, which is an increase of $17.1 billion above FY18 levels, and $68.1 billion ...
Nay	H.R. 195: Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 Jan 22, 2018. Passed 266/150. This bill became the vehicle for passage of continuing appropriations which re-opened the federal government after a three-day shut-down. The bill: * extended funding for government programs at levels similar to existing funding through Feb. 8, 2018 * extended the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ...
Yea	H.R. 1039: Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017 May 19, 2017. Passed 229/177. H.R. 1039 amends the federal criminal code to authorize a probation officer to arrest a person, without warrant, if there is probable cause to believe that person forcibly assaulted or obstructed a probation officer while performing their official duties. The bill also would direct the ...
No	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Feb 16, 2017. Passed 230/188. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
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 ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
No	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant legislative change to the U.S. patent system since the ...
Nay	H.Res. 1525 (110th): Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 1424) to amend section 712 of ... Oct 3, 2008. Passed 223/205.

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Mar 2019, Kind missed 474 of 14,833 roll call votes, which is 3.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% 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
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	30^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	21^st
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	17^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	1	1.4%	43^rd
1999 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	34^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	15^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	4	2.0%	60^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	3	3.2%	40^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	4	1.4%	38^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	5	5.0%	40^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	2	1.3%	39^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	4	5.1%	74^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	8	3.9%	71^st
2002 Jul-Sep	141	1	0.7%	27^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	8	8.5%	93^rd
2003 Apr-Jun	239	3	1.3%	40^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	7	3.6%	77^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	12	7.9%	79^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	7	4.3%	53^rd
2004 Oct-Dec	58	6	10.3%	80^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	3	3.3%	50^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	1	0.4%	14^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	16	11.0%	96^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	10	6.1%	84^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	1	0.4%	11^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	4	2.5%	56^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	21^st
2007 Apr-Jun	393	4	1.0%	33^rd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	2	0.6%	14^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	20	7.6%	84^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	4	2.7%	43^rd
2008 Apr-Jun	321	19	5.9%	74^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	8	3.9%	65^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	5	2.9%	61^st
2009 Apr-Jun	303	6	2.0%	46^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	2	0.7%	25^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	13	5.3%	77^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	10	5.1%	71^st
2010 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	2	1.3%	36^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	6	6.1%	69^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	1	0.5%	24^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	5	1.8%	60^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	15	7.2%	84^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	3	2.0%	55^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	12	4.0%	73^rd
2012 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	2	3.9%	55^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	4	4.5%	72^nd
2013 Apr-Jun	215	4	1.9%	50^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	11	5.5%	83^rd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	2	1.5%	43^rd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	4	2.7%	59^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	5	2.3%	59^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	2	1.4%	47^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	2	4.1%	74^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	3	2.1%	48^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	7	2.9%	74^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	6	4.3%	79^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	5	2.8%	75^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	44	32.1%	98^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	5	2.5%	57^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	40^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	4	2.9%	69^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	24^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	32	24.8%	98^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	16^th
2018 Jul-Sep	102	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Nov-Dec	85	65	76.5%	98^th
2019 Jan-Mar	125	9	7.2%	90^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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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