Rep. Virginia Foxx’s 2014 Report Card
Representative
from North Carolina's 5th District
Republican
Serving Jan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Foxx’s record during the 113th Congress (Jan 3, 2013-Jan 2, 2015) and compare her to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 12, 2015. Although Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA1], Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY4], Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ10], and Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI] served in the 112th Congress, they took office within the last two months of the 112th Congress and here are grouped with other freshmen for the 113th Congress.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Foxx’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
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Introduced the 2nd most bills compared to North Carolina DelegationFoxx introduced 22 bills and resolutions in the 113th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (85th percentile); House Republicans (79th percentile); Safe House Seats (78th percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile). |
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Got their bills out of committee the 7th most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Foxx introduced 15 bills in the 113th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.Res. 113: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 146: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 198: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 232: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 266: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 303: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 380: Relating to consideration of the …; H.Res. 465: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 492: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 576: Providing for consideration of the …; H.Res. 677: Providing for consideration of the …; H.R. 803: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; H.R. 899: Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency …; H.R. 2637: Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory …; H.R. 4983: Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education … Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (92nd percentile); House Republicans (97th percentile); Safe House Seats (98th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 13th fewest bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)Foxx cosponsored 76 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (8th percentile); House Republicans (3rd percentile); Safe House Seats (3rd percentile); All Representatives (3rd percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 20th lowest % of bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 1 other)Foxx tends to gather cosponsors only on one side of the aisle. 18% of Foxx’s 22 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in the 113th Congress. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (14th percentile); House Republicans (13th percentile); Safe House Seats (18th percentile); All Representatives (16th percentile). Only Members of Congress who sponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Was 22nd most present in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 5 others)Foxx missed 0.2% of votes (3 of 1,204 votes) in the 113th Congress. View Foxx’s Profile » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (8th percentile); Safe House Seats (5th percentile); All Representatives (5th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. |
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Ranked 35th most politically left compared to House RepublicansOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 113th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Foxx’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (31st percentile); House Republicans (15th percentile); Safe House Seats (53rd percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile). |
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Got the 46th fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 1 other)Foxx’s bills and resolutions had 90 cosponsors in the 113th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (46th percentile); House Republicans (19th percentile); Safe House Seats (21st percentile); All Representatives (22nd percentile). |
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Ranked the 59th bottom/follower compared to House RepublicansOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 113th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Foxx’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (54th percentile); House Republicans (25th percentile); Safe House Seats (36th percentile); All Representatives (37th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 64th least often compared to All RepresentativesOf the 76 bills that Foxx cosponsored, 7% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (17th percentile); House Republicans (27th percentile); Safe House Seats (16th percentile); All Representatives (14th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Laws EnactedFoxx introduced 2 bills that became law in the 113th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: H.R. 803: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; H.R. 5134: To extend the National Advisory … Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (69th percentile); House Republicans (82nd percentile); Safe House Seats (89th percentile); All Representatives (88th percentile). A bill or joint resolution is considered enacted if it or an exactly identical bill to it is enacted as law. We only consider bills that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. |
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Powerful Cosponsors4 of Foxx’s bills and resolutions in the 113th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward. Those bills were: H.R. 382: Preserve Land Freedom For Americans …; H.R. 803: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; H.R. 2637: Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory …; H.R. 4983: Strengthening Transparency in Higher Education … Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (62nd percentile); House Republicans (70th percentile); Safe House Seats (68th percentile); All Representatives (69th percentile). |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsFoxx held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Foxx’s Profile » Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (46th percentile); House Republicans (38th percentile); Safe House Seats (40th percentile); All Representatives (41st percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Foxx supported any of 12 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Foxx 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Compare to all North Carolina Delegation (0th percentile); House Republicans (0th percentile); Safe House Seats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
Additional Notes
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 113th Congress) was the 113th Congress (freshmen) or 112th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
