Rep. Susie Lee’s 2022 Report Card
Representative
from Nevada's 3rd District
Democrat
Serving Jan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Lee’s record during the 117th Congress (Jan 3, 2021-Jan 3, 2023) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Feb 12, 2023.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Lee’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
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Joined bipartisan bills the 4th most often compared to House DemocratsIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 230 bills that Lee cosponsored, 30% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all House Sophomores (90th percentile); House Democrats (98th percentile); All Representatives (82nd percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Ranked 10th most politically right compared to House DemocratsOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Lee’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all House Sophomores (49th percentile); House Democrats (95th percentile); All Representatives (49th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 13th fewest bills compared to House DemocratsLee cosponsored 230 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all House Sophomores (17th percentile); House Democrats (5th percentile); All Representatives (23rd percentile). |
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Ranked the 14th top leader compared to House SophomoresOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 117th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Lee’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all House Sophomores (82nd percentile); House Democrats (57th percentile); All Representatives (75th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 15th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 4 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 764: Keep Our PACT Act; H.R. 1353: Coronavirus Medicaid Response Act; H.R. 2929: Virtual Peer Support Act of …; H.R. 2986: End Speculative Oil and Gas …; H.R. 3155: Small Business Child Care Investment …; H.R. 4145: Earn To Learn Act; H.R. 4832: Open Access Evapotranspiration Data Act; H.R. 5141: Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments …; H.R. 6273: VA Zero Suicide Demonstration Project …; H.R. 6588: Cyber Ready Workforce Act; H.R. 7383: Improving Access to Health Care …; H.R. 8415: Las Vegas Wash Program Extension …; H.R. 8692: Physicians for Underserved Areas Act; H.R. 8722: Expanding Access to Mental Health … Compare to all House Sophomores (94th percentile); House Democrats (93rd percentile); All Representatives (96th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Got their bills out of committee the 29th least often compared to House Democrats (tied with 23 others)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Lee introduced 2 bills in the 117th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 5141: Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments …; H.R. 6273: VA Zero Suicide Demonstration Project … Compare to all House Sophomores (30th percentile); House Democrats (13th percentile); All Representatives (33rd percentile). |
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Introduced the 54th fewest bills compared to House Democrats (tied with 6 others)Lee introduced 19 bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all House Sophomores (29th percentile); House Democrats (24th percentile); All Representatives (37th percentile). |
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Laws EnactedLee introduced 1 bill that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 117th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 5141: Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments … Compare to all House Sophomores (38th percentile); House Democrats (18th percentile); All Representatives (35th percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Powerful Cosponsors3 of Lee’s bills and resolutions in the 117th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward. Those bills were: H.R. 2986: End Speculative Oil and Gas …; H.R. 4832: Open Access Evapotranspiration Data Act; H.R. 8434: Facilitating Large-Scale Water Recycling and … Compare to all House Sophomores (42nd percentile); House Democrats (26th percentile); All Representatives (41st percentile). |
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Writing Bipartisan BillsIn this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 13 of Lee’s 19 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Lee caucused with in the 117th Congress. Compare to all House Sophomores (66th percentile); House Democrats (55th percentile); All Representatives (70th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Committee PositionsLee held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Lee’s Profile » Compare to all House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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CosponsorsLee’s bills and resolutions had 405 cosponsors in the 117th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills » Compare to all House Sophomores (69th percentile); House Democrats (49th percentile); All Representatives (65th percentile). |
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Missed VotesLee missed 0.7% of votes (7 of 998 votes) in the 117th Congress. View Lee’s Profile » Compare to all House Sophomores (45th percentile); All Representatives (34th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. |
Additional Notes
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 117th Congress) was the 117th Congress (freshmen) or 116th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
