Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Brooks has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into her 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). Brooks is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Brooks for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Susan Brooks sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Member, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Health
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- House Committee on Ethics
- House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Brooks sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (35%) Armed Forces and National Security (18%) Labor and Employment (12%) Education (12%) Emergency Management (12%) Commerce (12%)
Recent Bills
Some of Brooks’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5509: To name the Department of Veterans Affairs temporary lodging facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, ...
- H.R. 5097: STALL Act
- H.R. 4958: To direct the Secretary of Energy to review and update a report on ...
- H.Res. 647: Recognizing the Girl Scouts of the USA on the 100th anniversary of the ...
- H.R. 4641: To provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, ...
- H.Res. 554: Supporting the goals and ideals of “Computer Science Education Week”.
- H.R. 3681: Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 2013 to Sep 2016, Brooks missed 22 of 2,470 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. 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