Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Peters 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). Peters is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Peters for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Scott Peters sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Armed Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Readiness
- Member, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
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House Committee on the Judiciary
- Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Peters sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (25%) Taxation (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (14%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Health (11%) Education (9%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Government Operations and Politics (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Peters’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6033: Adding Middle East Respiratory Syndrome to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act
- H.R. 5875: To establish requirements for committees of the Senate and the Senate to consider ...
- H.Res. 776: Expressing support for designation of the month of November as “U.S. Navy Aircraft ...
- H.R. 3983: BOSS Act
- H.R. 3774: Protect America’s Credit Act of 2015
- H.R. 3775: Pay Down the Debt Act of 2015
- H.R. 3751: Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 2013 to Sep 2016, Peters missed 32 of 2,463 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 1 explanation 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