Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Foxx has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into her 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). Foxx is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Foxx for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Virginia Foxx sits on the following committees:
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Vice Chairman,
House Committee on Rules
- Member, Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process
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House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training
- Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Foxx sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (29%) Labor and Employment (24%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Taxation (12%)
Recent Bills
Some of Foxx’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6248: To establish a direct spending safeguard limitation on any direct spending program without ...
- H.Res. 823: Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, on June ...
- H.Res. 822: Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the ...
- H.J.Res. 95: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, ...
- H.Res. 706: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4901) to reauthorize the Scholarships for ...
- H.Res. 555: Electing a Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.
- H.Res. 517: Electing Members to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives.
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Voting Record
From Jan 2005 to Sep 2016, Foxx missed 49 of 8,832 roll call votes, which is 0.6%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 2 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