Sen. Tammy Duckworth

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Duckworth.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Duckworth 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 Duckworth has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 21, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Tammy Duckworth sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Transportation and Safety subcommittee Ranking Member

  Aviation and Space, Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
  • Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife subcommittee Ranking Member

  Clean Air and Nuclear Safety subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Armed Services
  Airland, Personnel, Readiness and Management Support subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Enacted Legislation

Duckworth was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:

• S. 1739: Department of Energy National Labs Jobs ACCESS Act
• S. 2679 (115th): Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act of 2018
• S. 1050 (115th): Chinese-American World War II Veteran Congressional Gold Medal Act
• S. 496: A bill to repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled “Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform”.
• H.R. 4797 (114th): GET THE LEAD OUT Act of 2016

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Does 5 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

Duckworth sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Transportation and Public Works (15%) Health (14%) Environmental Protection (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Science, Technology, Communications (10%) Education (9%) Government Operations and Politics (8%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 3088: ACHA Act
• S. 3074: Liver Illness Visibility, Education, and Research Act of 2019
• S.Res. 442: A resolution designating November 2019 as “National Runaway Prevention Month”.
• S. 2825: Veteran Employment and Child Care Access Act of 2019
• S. 2822: Post-9/11 Veteran Suicide Prevention Counseling Act
• S. 2821: Access to Contraception Expansion for Veterans Act
• S. 2797: Military Family Parole in Place Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Jan 2020, Duckworth missed 97 of 1,053 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is much worse 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