Rep. Chellie Pingree

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Pingree 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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Dec 10, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Chellie Pingree sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  • Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittee Ranking Member

  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies subcommittees
• House Committee on Agriculture
  Forestry, Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Pingree was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 8262 (117th): Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023
• H.R. 4372 (117th): Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
• H.R. 1469 (117th): York River Wild and Scenic River Act of 2021

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Does 3 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

Pingree sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (50%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (17%) Immigration (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pingree recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 9909: Working Waterfront Disaster Mitigation Tax Credit Act
• H.R. 6937: The Organic Dairy Data Collection Act
• H.R. 6641: Keep America’s Waterfronts Working Act
• H.Res. 783: Supporting the designation of October 16, 2023, and October 16, 2024, as “World …
• H.R. 5657: NO TIME TO Waste Act
• H.R. 5315: Rural Forest Markets Act of 2023
• H.R. 4940: Fishing Industry Credit Enhancement Act of 2023

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Dec 2024, Pingree missed 285 of 10,176 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% 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, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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