Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills DelBene 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). DelBene is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for DelBene for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Suzan DelBene sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Agriculture
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition
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House Committee on the Judiciary
- Member, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
DelBene sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (22%) Agriculture and Food (17%) Education (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (13%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (9%) Immigration (9%) Health (9%) Taxation (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of DelBene’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5746: Birth Control Privacy Act
- H.R. 5628: Timber Innovation Act of 2016
- H.R. 5372: United States Digital Service Act
- H.R. 4776: National Landslide Loss Reduction Act
- H.R. 4617: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require that ...
- H.R. 4554: To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that certain members of ...
- H.Res. 549: Expressing support for the designation of June 26 as “LGBT Equality Day”.
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Voting Record
From Nov 2012 to Sep 2016, DelBene missed 15 of 2,520 roll call votes, which is 0.6%. This is better than the median of 2.4% 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