Rep. Thomas Massie

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Massie.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Massie 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 Massie has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Sep 13, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Thomas Massie sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Member, Subcommittee on Government Operations
• House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
  • Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
  • Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Massie sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (29%) Agriculture and Food (24%) Finance and Financial Sector (14%) Taxation (14%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Education (10%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 3971: Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act
• H.R. 3791: Investing in America: Rebuilding America’s Airport Infrastructure Act
• H.R. 3200: Safe Students Act
• H.R. 2859: PRIME Act
• H.R. 899: To terminate the Department of Education.
• H.R. 24: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2019
• H.R. 191: EPIC Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Nov 2012 to Sep 2019, Massie missed 45 of 4,324 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives 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