Rep. Mike Coffman

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Coffman.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Coffman is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2018 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 3, 2013 to Dec 21, 2018. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Coffman was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 5792 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 90 North 4th Avenue in Brighton, Colorado, as the “Detective Heath McDonald Gumm Post Office”.
• H.R. 5791 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9609 South University Boulevard in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, as the “Deputy Sheriff Zackari Spurlock Parrish, …
• H.R. 2147 (115th): Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act of 2018
• H.R. 4635 (115th): To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase the number of peer-to-peer counselors providing counseling for women veterans, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 918 (115th): Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act
• H.R. 2496 (114th): Construction Authorization and Choice Improvement Act
• H.R. 1402 (113th): VA Expiring Authorities Extension Act of 2013

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Does 10 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

Coffman sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (58%) Immigration (10%) Health (8%) Taxation (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Coffman recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 7064 (115th): Fair Environmental Trade Agreements Act of 2018
• H.R. 6926 (115th): Pilot Act of 2018
• H.R. 6794 (115th): Immigration Innovation Act of 2018
• H.R. 6713 (115th): Safe to Tell Act of 2018
• H.R. 6696 (115th): TPS Extension Act of 2018
• H.R. 6573 (115th): To require a determination on designation of the Russian Federation as a …
• H.R. 6393 (115th): 21st Century Internet Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Dec 2018, Coffman missed 65 of 7,000 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2018. 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