Rep. Veronica Escobar

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Escobar.

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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Jan 21, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Veronica Escobar sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  Military Personnel, Readiness subcommittees
• House Committee on the Judiciary
  Immigration and Citizenship, The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Escobar sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Immigration (100%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5625: Targeting Environmental and Climate Recklessness Act of 2019
• H.R. 2759: Department of Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act
• H.R. 2662: Asylum Seeker Protection Act
• H.R. 2203: Homeland Security Improvement Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Jan 2020, Escobar missed 9 of 723 roll call votes, which is 1.2%. 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