Rep. Ruben Gallego

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Mar 31, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Ruben Gallego sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Natural Resources
  • For Indigenous Peoples of the United States subcommittee Chair

  National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands subcommittees
• House Committee on Armed Services
  Military Personnel, Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Gallego was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• 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 1 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:

Armed Forces and National Security (22%) Education (18%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Native Americans (15%) Immigration (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) International Affairs (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 6346: To establish a standard interest rate under programs for economic injury disaster loans, ...
• H.R. 6237: PRC for Native Veterans Act
• H.R. 6236: Collegiate Freedom of Association Act 2.0
• H.R. 6027: Restore Veterans’ Compensation Act of 2020
• H.R. 5897: Preventing Abuse and Neglect of Vulnerable Americans Act of 2020
• H.R. 5850: Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act of 2020
• H.R. 5786: VA Quality Health Care Accountability and Transparency Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Mar 2020, Gallego missed 70 of 3,338 roll call votes, which is 2.1%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% 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