Rep. Veronica Escobar

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Escobar 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Escobar has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to May 20, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Veronica Escobar sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Military Personnel subcommittee Vice Chair

  Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems subcommittees
• House Committee on Ethics
• House Committee on the Judiciary
  Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, Immigration and Citizenship subcommittees
• House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Enacted Legislation

Escobar was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 8354 (116th): Servicemembers and Veterans Initiative Act of 2020

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Does 1 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Escobar sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (29%) Armed Forces and National Security (29%) International Affairs (21%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Escobar recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7814: Health Care Providers Safety Act of 2022
• H.R. 7533: To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to provide that recipients …
• H.R. 7004: PIGS Act of 2022
• H.R. 5618: Reimagining Asylum Processing Act of 2021
• H.R. 5584: Fairness for Fallen Sailors Act
• H.R. 5217: Federal Acquisition E-Commerce Fairness and Competition Act
• H.R. 4812: Border Health Security Act of 2021

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to May 2022, Escobar missed 18 of 1,635 roll call votes, which is 1.1%. This is better than the median of 2.1% 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
• Office of Veronica Escobar for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills