Rep. Ross Spano
Former Representative for Florida’s 15th District
pronounced ross // SPA-noh
Spano was the representative for Florida’s 15th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 2019 to 2020.
![Photo of Rep. Ross Spano [R-FL15, 2019-2020]](/static/legislator-photos/412765-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Spano was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Spano joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. President Trump was indicted in 2023 for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election and his role in the fraudulent slates of electors and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2020 Report Card for Spano.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Spano is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2020 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 Spano sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 28, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Spano sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (67%) Taxation (33%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Spano recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7397 (116th): To amend the Small Business Act to provide that certain chambers of …
- H.R. 7226 (116th): Federal Agency Sunset Act
- H.R. 7040 (116th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
- H.R. 7039 (116th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
- H.R. 6920 (116th): Keep Employees’ Earnings Protected Act of 2020
- H.R. 6219 (116th): SAFE at Work Act of 2020
- H.R. 5169 (116th): TRICARE Fairness for National Guard and Reserve Retirees Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Dec 2020, Spano missed 32 of 954 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2020. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
- Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
