Rep. Steve Chabot
Former Representative for Ohio’s 1st District
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![Photo of Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH1, 2011-2022]](/static/legislator-photos/400071-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Chabot was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Chabot voted to skip Arizona and/or Pennsylvania in the counting of presidential electors, states which returned certified results for Trump’s opponent. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. President Trump was indicted in 2023 for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election and his role in the fraudulent slates of electors and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Chabot.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Chabot is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Chabot sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Chabot was the primary sponsor of 22 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 8265 (116th): To amend the Small Business Act and the CARES Act to establish a program for second draw loans and make other modifications to the paycheck protection program, …
- H.R. 8087 (116th): To amend the Small Business Act and the CARES Act to establish a program for second draw loans and make other modifications to the paycheck protection program, …
- H.R. 499 (116th): Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act
- H.R. 498 (116th): Clean Up the Code Act of 2019
- H.R. 6758 (115th): SUCCESS Act
- H.R. 6982 (115th): Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2018
- H.R. 4743 (115th): Small Business 7(a) Lending Oversight Reform Act of 2018
Does 22 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
Chabot sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (31%) Commerce (25%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) Taxation (10%) Law (4%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (4%) Armed Forces and National Security (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Chabot recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9700 (117th): Taiwan Status Diplomacy Act
- H.R. 9540 (117th): Legacies of War Recognition and Unexploded Ordnance Removal Act
- H.Res. 1430 (117th): Recognizing the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971.
- H.R. 9096 (117th): Gray Zone Defense Assessment Act
- H.R. 8842 (117th): Accelerating Arms Transfers to Taiwan Act
- H.R. 8766 (117th): REFINE Act
- H.Res. 1259 (117th): Condemning the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and honoring …
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Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1995 to Dec 2022, Chabot missed 82 of 16,345 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
