Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Fincher 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). Fincher is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Fincher for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Stephen Fincher sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Fincher sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (31%) Taxation (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Health (11%) Housing and Community Development (11%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Emergency Management (6%) Agriculture and Food (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Fincher’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4285: Prevent Terrorism from Entering our Prisons Act of 2015
- H.R. 4252: Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015
- H.R. 4189: Stop Funding for Terrorism Act
- H.Res. 450: Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 597) to reauthorize the Export-Import ...
- H.R. 3611: Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015
- H.R. 2998: CLAIM Act
- H.R. 2769: Risk-Based Capital Study Act of 2015
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Voting Record
From Jan 2011 to Sep 2016, Fincher missed 411 of 4,069 roll call votes, which is 10.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 34 explanations 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