Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Hinojosa 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). Hinojosa is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Hinojosa for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Rubén Hinojosa sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training
- Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hinojosa sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (43%) Finance and Financial Sector (14%) Taxation (7%) Housing and Community Development (7%) Labor and Employment (7%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Health (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hinojosa’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4834: North American Development Bank General Capital Increase Authorization Act of 2016
- H.Res. 505: Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
- H.R. 3721: Affordable College Textbook Act
- H.R. 1956: Pell Grant Protection Act
- H.R. 1959: College Options for DREAMers Act
- H.R. 1958: Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act
- H.R. 1957: Pell Grant Cost of Tuition Adjustment Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1997 to Sep 2016, Hinojosa missed 1,485 of 13,434 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 129 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