Rep. Jackie Speier

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Speier 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 Speier has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Sep 15, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Jackie Speier sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Armed Services
  • Military Personnel subcommittee Chair

  Readiness subcommittees
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  • Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research subcommittee Chair

  Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support subcommittees
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Economic and Consumer Policy, National Security subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Speier was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 1773 (116th): Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019
• H.R. 6125 (116th): Supporting Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma Act of 2020
• H.R. 2191 (114th): Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2015
• H.R. 6982 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 210 South Ellsworth Avenue in San Mateo, California, as the “Leo J. Ryan Post Office …

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Does 4 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

Speier sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (20%) Transportation and Public Works (19%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) International Affairs (13%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Health (11%) Education (7%) Labor and Employment (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Speier recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8867: To establish a cause of action with respect to reproductive health services, and …
• H.R. 8831: Seaman Danyelle Luckey Military Medical Accountability Amendment Act of 2022
• H.Res. 1312: Directing the House of Representatives Fine Arts Board to acquire an appropriate mural …
• H.R. 8546: Clinical Trial Coverage Act of 2022
• H.R. 8023: Don Young Arctic Warrior Act
• H.R. 7945: MARCH for Military Servicemembers Act
• H.R. 7560: Sexual Harassment Independent Investigations and Prosecution Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Apr 2008 to Sep 2022, Speier missed 935 of 9,338 roll call votes, which is 10.0%. This is much worse 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills