![Photo of Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO3]](/static/legislator-photos/412405-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 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 Nov 13, 2019. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Scott Tipton sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions
- Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance
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.
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Tipton sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (39%) Finance and Financial Sector (19%) Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Energy (9%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Tipton’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5077: To provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying certain Federal ...
- H.R. 4731: Military Aviation Training Safeguard Act
- H.R. 4465: Enhance School Safety Act
- H.R. 4427: To require the Secretary of Energy to identify and convey to the State ...
- H.R. 4410: Rare Earth Cooperative 21st Century Manufacturing Act
- H.Res. 554: Supporting the designation of September 2019, as “School Bus Safety and Security Month”.
- H.R. 4200: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 321 ...
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2011 to Nov 2019, Tipton missed 77 of 5,961 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.1% 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.
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
