Rep. Steve Knight

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Knight.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Knight is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2018 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 Knight sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2013 to Dec 21, 2018. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

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

• H.R. 1162 (115th): No Hero Left Untreated Act
• H.R. 6330 (115th): Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018
• H.R. 4254 (115th): Women in Aerospace Education Act
• H.R. 6902 (115th): Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018
• H.R. 2333 (115th): Small Business Investment Opportunity Act of 2017
• H.R. 3210 (115th): Securely Expediting Clearances Through Reporting Transparency Act of 2018
• H.R. 5707 (115th): START Act

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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

Knight sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (19%) Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Transportation and Public Works (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (11%) Health (11%) Water Resources Development (11%) Energy (8%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Knight recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 6898 (115th): Maintaining Protections for Patients with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2018
• H.R. 6902 (115th): Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018
• H.R. 6599 (115th): To modify the application of temporary limited appointment regulations to the National …
• H.R. 6440 (115th): Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Trade in Schools Act
• H.R. 6330 (115th): Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018
• H.R. 6173 (115th): To amend section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization …
• H.Con.Res. 122 (115th): Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and its significant …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Dec 2018, Knight missed 49 of 2,535 roll call votes, which is 1.9%. This is on par with the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2018. 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.

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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