Rep. Dave Camp

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2014 Report Card for Camp.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Camp is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2014 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 sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2009 to Dec 11, 2014. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Camp was the primary sponsor of 18 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014
• H.R. 4994 (113th): IMPACT Act of 2014
• H.R. 4980 (113th): Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
• H.R. 5021 (113th): Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014
• H.R. 325 (113th): No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013
• H.R. 8 (112th): American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
• H.R. 6156 (112th): Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012

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Does 18 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

Camp sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (31%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (25%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Social Welfare (8%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Health (6%) Environmental Protection (6%) Families (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Camp recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5861 (113th): Guarding Our Great Lakes Act
• H.R. 5833 (113th): Taxpayer Protections Against Abusive Seizures Act
• H.Con.Res. 124 (113th): Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 5771.
• H.R. 1 (113th): Tax Reform Act of 2014
• H.R. 5806 (113th): Supporting America’s Charities Act
• H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014
• H.R. 5528 (113th): Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1991 to Dec 2014, Camp missed 278 of 15,567 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2014. 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