Sen. Tammy Baldwin

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Baldwin.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Baldwin is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Baldwin has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Mar 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Tammy Baldwin sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather subcommittee Ranking Member

  Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Transportation and Safety subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Employment and Workplace Safety subcommittee Ranking Member

  Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Appropriations
  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Baldwin was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 1196: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1715 Linnerud Drive in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, as the “Fire Captain Cory Barr Post ...
• S. 1287: Strengthening Buy America for Small Shipyard Grants Act
• S. 679: HAVEN Act
• S. 3466: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2650 North Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the “Vel ...
• S. 447: Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2017
• S. 1153: Veterans Acquiring Community Care Expect Safe Services Act of 2017
• S. 783: Improving Access to Maternity Care Act

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Does 10 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

Baldwin sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Education (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) Taxation (10%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Baldwin’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• S. 3584: A bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an emergency temporary ...
• S. 3570: A bill to provide for the expedited procurement of equipment needed to combat ...
• S. 3541: A bill to modify requirements relating to small business disaster loans made in ...
• S. 3540: A bill to prohibit public companies from repurchasing their shares on the open ...
• S. 3507: A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to make testing for the ...
• S. 3487: A bill to amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide ...
• S. 3349: Built to Last Act of 2020

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Mar 2020, Baldwin missed 7 of 2,266 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 1.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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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