Rep. Seth Moulton

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Moulton.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Moulton 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 Moulton has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 6, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Seth Moulton sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Member, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
  • Member, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
• House Committee on the Budget

Enacted Legislation

Moulton was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 6059 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 51 Willow Street in Lynn, Massachusetts, as the “Thomas P. Costin, Jr. Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 3095: Veterans ACCESS Act
• H.R. 274 (115th): Modernizing Government Travel Act
• H.R. 4352 (114th): Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016

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Does 4 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

Moulton sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (34%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (13%) Social Welfare (11%) Commerce (8%) International Affairs (8%) Labor and Employment (8%) Animals (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4929: Too Long; Didn’t Read Act of 2019
• H.R. 4594: Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act
• H.R. 4531: State And Federal Electronic Data Records to Improve Vehicle-operator Eligibility Reporting Systems Act ...
• H.R. 4048: Automatic Listening Exploitation Act of 2019
• H.R. 3919: Creating Opportunity And Sustainability Through Science Act
• H.R. 3514: To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide fisheries disaster ...
• H.R. 3363: Sewage Treatment Overflow Prevention through Community Sanitation Outreach Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Dec 2019, Moulton missed 143 of 3,191 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is worse 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. Legislators running for president or vice president typically miss votes while on the campaign trail — that’s normal. See our analysis of presidential candidates’ missed votes.

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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