Rep. Ruben Gallego

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Gallego.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Gallego 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 Gallego has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Nov 26, 2021. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Ruben Gallego sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Intelligence and Special Operations subcommittee Chair

  Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittees
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  For Indigenous Peoples of the United States, National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands subcommittees
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
  Economic Opportunity subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Gallego was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 6535 (116th): To deem an urban Indian organization and employees thereof to be a part of the Public Health Service for the purposes of certain claims for personal injury, …
• H.R. 6237 (116th): PRC for Native Veterans Act
• H.R. 4010 (114th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 522 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, as the “Ed Pastor Post Office”.

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Does 3 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

Gallego sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Native Americans (25%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Education (19%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Immigration (6%) Health (6%) Commerce (4%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5622: Vaccine Accountability and Premium Protection Act
• H.R. 4995: Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2021
• H.R. 4815: Higher Education Dream Act of 2021
• H.R. 3496: Urban Indian Health Providers Facilities Improvement Act
• H.R. 3391: Universal Full-Day Kindergarten Act
• H.R. 2878: Native VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities Pilot Program Act
• H.R. 2775: VA Quality Health Care Accountability and Transparency Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Nov 2021, Gallego missed 79 of 3,875 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with 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