Rep. Scott Tipton

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Tipton.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Tipton 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 Tipton has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Aug 7, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Scott Tipton sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Housing, Community Development, and Insurance subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Tipton was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 6216 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3025 Woodgate Road in Montrose, Colorado, as the “Sergeant David Kinterknecht Post Office”.
• H.R. 6217 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 241 N 4th Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, as the “Deputy Sheriff Derek Geer Post ...
• H.R. 698: Elkhorn Ranch and White River National Forest Conveyance Act of 2017
• H.R. 4609: West Fork Fire Station Act of 2017
• H.R. 1457: MOBILE Act of 2017
• H.R. 678 (113th): Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act
• H.R. 2815 (112th): To revise the Federal charter for the Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc., to reflect a change in eligibility requirements for membership.

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Does 7 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

Tipton sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (33%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Finance and Financial Sector (18%) Energy (9%) Government Operations and Politics (6%) International Affairs (4%) Education (4%) Water Resources Development (4%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 7189: Operation Overlord Study Abroad Program Act of 2020
• H.R. 6294: Improving Emergency Disease Response via Housing Act of 2020
• H.R. 6267: State- and Science-based Gray Wolf Reintroduction Act of 2020
• H.R. 6014: Employment Fairness for Taiwan Act of 2020
• H.R. 5714: Safeguarding Readiness in Military Aviation Training Act
• H.R. 5467: LOCAL Act of 2019
• H.R. 5077: REAL Protection Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Jul 2020, Tipton missed 79 of 6,224 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than 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