Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Buchanan has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Buchanan is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Buchanan for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Vern Buchanan sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Ways and Means
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Health
- Member, Subcommittee on Social Security
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Buchanan sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Economics and Public Finance (23%) Taxation (23%) Health (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Social Welfare (12%) International Affairs (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Buchanan’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5456: Family First Prevention Services Act of 2016
- H.R. 5169: What Works to Move Welfare Recipients into Jobs Act
- H.R. 5076: Main Street Fairness Act
- H.R. 4650: Preserving Patient Access to Post-Acute Hospital Care Act of 2016
- H.R. 4301: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to search all public records to ...
- H.R. 3957: Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016
- H.Res. 451: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Sergeant Charles Martland, a ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 2007 to Sep 2016, Buchanan missed 226 of 7,600 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 9 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills