Terri Sewell, Representative for Alabama's 7th Congressional District

Sewell is the representative for Alabama’s 7^th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 5, 2011. Sewell is next up for reelection in 2018.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Sewell.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Sewell is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Sewell has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% Human Rights Campaign: 88% League of Conservation Voters: 78% American Civil Liberties Union: 76% NIAC Action: B United States Chamber of Commerce: 60% NumbersUSA: 19% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: D Americans for Prosperity: 10% FreedomWorks: 10% The Club for Growth: 6%

Committee Membership

Terri Sewell sits on the following committees:

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture
- Member, Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cybersecurity
House Committee on Ways and Means
- Member, Subcommittee on Health
- Member, Subcommittee on Human Resources

Enacted Legislation

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

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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

Sewell sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (46%) Government Operations and Politics (38%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Sewell’s Vote	Vote Description
No	S. 612: A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the “George P. Kazen Federal Building ... Dec 8, 2016. Passed 360/61.
Yea	H.R. 511: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015 Nov 17, 2015. Passed 249/177.
Aye	H.R. 3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Jul 15, 2015. Passed 312/119.
Aye	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 18, 2015. Passed 218/208. This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. ...
Yea	H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 May 13, 2015. Passed 338/88. 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 the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of ...
Aye	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
No	H.R. 10 (113th): Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act May 9, 2014. Passed 360/45.
Aye	H.R. 6233 (112th): Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012 Aug 2, 2012. Passed 223/197.
No	H.R. 2218 (112th): Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act Sep 13, 2011. Passed 365/54.
Aye	H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Jun 23, 2011. Passed 304/117. The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The law represents the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Sep 2018, Sewell missed 228 of 5,244 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	212	1	0.5%	26^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	10	3.6%	80^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	2	0.8%	34^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	7	3.4%	66^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	4	2.6%	63^rd
2012 Apr-Jun	299	6	2.0%	58^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	19	12.5%	94^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	4	4.5%	75^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	3	1.4%	43^rd
2013 Jul-Sep	200	2	1.0%	42^nd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	8	5.8%	83^rd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	44^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	10	6.8%	87^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	10	6.9%	88^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	11	4.5%	83^rd
2015 Jul-Sep	139	18	12.9%	93^rd
2015 Oct-Dec	177	9	5.1%	89^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	6	4.4%	61^st
2016 Apr-Jun	204	16	7.8%	86^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	13	5.6%	89^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	4	8.3%	89^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	5	2.4%	67^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	31^st
2017 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	37^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	9	5.4%	80^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	44	23.9%	97^th
2018 Jul-Sep	86	2	2.3%	54^th

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

Terri Sewell is pronounced:

TE-ree // SOO-uhl

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
E e	bed
EE ee	meet
L l	leg
OO oo	soon
R r	rag
S s	sit
T t	top
UH uh	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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