Rep. Sander Levin

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Levin.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Levin is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2018 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 Levin sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2013 to Dec 21, 2018. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Levin was the primary sponsor of 16 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 1916 (114th): Trade Enforcement and Trade Facilitation Act of 2015
• H.R. 15 (112th): Middle Class Tax Cut Act
• H.R. 3743 (112th): Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011
• H.R. 6517 (111th): Omnibus Trade Act of 2010
• H.R. 4783 (111th): Claims Resolution Act of 2010
• H.R. 5712 (111th): Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010
• H.R. 6190 (111th): Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2010, Part III

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Does 16 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

Levin sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (42%) International Affairs (23%) Health (23%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (12%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Levin recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Res. 1161 (115th): Directing the Speaker to administer the oath of office to the representative-elect …
• H.Res. 1057 (115th): Calling on Burma’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to release two …
• H.R. 6431 (115th): Medigap Consumer Protection Act of 2018
• H.Res. 973 (115th): Expressing support for the designation of July 15, 2018, as “National Leiomyosarcoma …
• H.Res. 931 (115th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 85th anniversary …
• H.R. 5150 (115th): Protecting Medicare from Excessive Price Increases Act of 2018
• H.Res. 608 (115th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 85th anniversary …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Dec 2018, Levin missed 210 of 21,741 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2018. 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
• United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
• Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills