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Rep. Ted Yoho

Former Representative for Florida’s 3rd District

pronounced ted // YOH-hoh


Yoho was the representative for Florida’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 2013 to 2020.

Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.


Yoho was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Yoho joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Photo of Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL3, 2013-2020]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Yoho.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Yoho is shown as a purple triangle in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2020 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Yoho sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 28, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Yoho was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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Does 3 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 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Yoho sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (43%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) Education (7%) Health (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Yoho recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Yoho voted Nay

Yoho voted Nay

Passed 410/4 on Feb 26, 2020.

Yoho voted Nay

Passed 419/5 on Sep 10, 2019.

Yoho voted No

Yoho voted Nay

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Yoho voted Nay

Passed 407/5 on May 12, 2015.

This bill became the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. The bill was …

Yoho voted Nay

Yoho voted Yea

Passed 219/206 on Dec 11, 2014.

This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December …

Yoho voted No

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Dec 2020, Yoho missed 176 of 4,693 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2020. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: