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Rep. Ted Yoho’s 2015 Report Card

Representative from Florida's 3rd District
Republican
Served Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2021

These year-end statistics cover Yoho’s record during the 2015 legislative year (Jan 6, 2015-Dec 31, 2015) and compare him to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 9, 2016.

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 Yoho’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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Ranked 2nd most politically right compared to Florida Delegation

Our 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 2015 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Yoho’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (89th percentile); House Republicans (81st percentile); Safe House Seats (88th percentile); All Representatives (89th percentile).

 

Got the 5th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House Sophomores

Yoho’s bills and resolutions had 438 cosponsors in 2015. 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 Florida Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (93rd percentile); House Republicans (88th percentile); Safe House Seats (90th percentile); All Representatives (90th percentile).

 

Ranked the 5th top leader compared to House Sophomores

Our 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 2015 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Yoho’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (93rd percentile); House Sophomores (93rd percentile); House Republicans (87th percentile); Safe House Seats (92nd percentile); All Representatives (92nd percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 41st highest % of bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 54% of Yoho’s 13 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2015.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (71st percentile); House Sophomores (78th percentile); House Republicans (68th percentile); Safe House Seats (82nd percentile); All Representatives (79th percentile).

Only Members of Congress who sponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Cosponsored the 44th most bills compared to House Republicans

Yoho cosponsored 203 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 Florida Delegation (63rd percentile); House Sophomores (48th percentile); House Republicans (82nd percentile); Safe House Seats (64th percentile); All Representatives (64th percentile).

 

Joined bipartisan bills the 61st most often compared to House Republicans

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 203 bills that Yoho cosponsored, 15% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (30th percentile); House Sophomores (36th percentile); House Republicans (75th percentile); Safe House Seats (45th percentile); All Representatives (44th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Laws Enacted

Yoho introduced 0 bills that became law in 2015. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively.
 

Bills Introduced

Yoho introduced 13 bills and resolutions in 2015. View Bills »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (59th percentile); House Sophomores (67th percentile); House Republicans (65th percentile); Safe House Seats (64th percentile); All Representatives (65th percentile).

 

Bills Out of Committee

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Yoho introduced 1 bill in 2015 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: H.Res. 346: Condemning the use of toxic …

Compare to all Florida Delegation (56th percentile); House Sophomores (49th percentile); House Republicans (31st percentile); Safe House Seats (45th percentile); All Representatives (46th percentile).

 

Powerful Cosponsors

2 of Yoho’s bills and resolutions in 2015 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.Res. 346: Condemning the use of toxic …; H.R. 3268: PAST Act

Compare to all Florida Delegation (48th percentile); House Sophomores (52nd percentile); House Republicans (49th percentile); Safe House Seats (43rd percentile); All Representatives (44th percentile).

 

Working with the Senate

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 2 of Yoho’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: H.R. 1595: To require the Secretary of …; H.R. 3268: PAST Act

Compare to all Florida Delegation (48th percentile); House Sophomores (53rd percentile); House Republicans (55th percentile); Safe House Seats (53rd percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Committee Positions

Yoho 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 Yoho’s Profile »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (0th percentile); House Sophomores (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile).

 

Missed Votes

Yoho missed 1.4% of votes (10 of 704 votes) in 2015. View Yoho’s Profile »

Compare to all Florida Delegation (26th percentile); House Sophomores (47th percentile); Safe House Seats (40th percentile); All Representatives (42nd 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.
 

Government Transparency

GovTrack looked at whether Yoho supported any of 28 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Yoho 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Yoho cosponsored H.R. 653: FOIA Act

Compare to all Florida Delegation (52nd percentile); House Sophomores (33rd percentile); House Republicans (69th percentile); Safe House Seats (41st percentile); All Representatives (43rd percentile).

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 2015) was the 114th Congress (freshmen) or 113th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.