Rep. Steve Chabot’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Ohio's 1st District
Republican
Served Jan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2023
These statistics cover Chabot’s record during the 115th Congress (Jan 3, 2017-Jan 3, 2019) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 20, 2019.
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 Chabot’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 most bills compared to Ohio DelegationChabot introduced 34 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (83rd percentile); House Republicans (91st percentile); All Representatives (89th percentile). |
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Held the most committee positions compared to Ohio DelegationChabot held a leadership position on 1 committee and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. For comparison to other Members of Congress, we assigned a score giving five points for each full committee leadership position and one point for each subcommittee leadership position. View Chabot’s Profile » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (77th percentile); House Republicans (89th percentile); All Representatives (89th percentile). |
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Got influential cosponsors the most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)20 of Chabot’s bills and resolutions in the 115th 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.Res. 288: Expressing support for the designation …; H.Res. 603: Recognizing November 25, 2017, as …; H.Res. 840: Expressing support for the designation …; H.Res. 1091: Expressing the sense of the …; H.Res. 1144: Recognizing November 24, 2018, as …; H.R. 33: Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements …; H.R. 535: Taiwan Travel Act; H.R. 1773: Clarity for America’s Small Contractors …; H.R. 2004: Strengthen Employment And Seasonal Opportunities …; H.R. 2408: Protecting Girls’ Access to Education …; H.R. 2432: Volunteer Organization Protection Act of …; H.R. 3170: Small Business Development Center Cyber …; H.R. 4668: Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements …; H.R. 4743: Small Business 7(a) Lending Oversight …; H.R. 5887: BIG Data for IP Act; H.R. 5904: NOPEC; H.R. 6389: To enact certain laws relating …; H.R. 6758: SUCCESS Act; H.R. 6982: Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act …; H.R. 7093: Clean Up the Code Act … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (99th percentile); House Republicans (100th percentile); All Representatives (100th percentile). |
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Supported government transparency the 2nd most often compared to Ohio Delegation (tied with 2 others)GovTrack looked at whether Chabot supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Chabot 3 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Chabot cosponsored H.R. 24: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of …; H.R. 522: Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act …; H.R. 732: Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (75th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (68th percentile); House Republicans (70th percentile); All Representatives (68th percentile). |
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Ranked 8th most politically right compared to Serving 10+ YearsOur 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 115th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Chabot’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (88th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (96th percentile); House Republicans (85th percentile); All Representatives (92nd percentile). |
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Was 8th most present in votes compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 2 others)Chabot missed 0.2% of votes (3 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Chabot’s Profile » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (6th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (4th 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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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 10th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 1 other)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 25 of Chabot’s 34 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Chabot caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (97th percentile); House Republicans (96th percentile); All Representatives (97th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Got their bills out of committee the 22nd most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 3 others)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Chabot introduced 13 bills in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.Res. 899: Requesting the Senate to return …; H.Res. 1091: Expressing the sense of the …; H.R. 79: HALOS Act; H.R. 535: Taiwan Travel Act; H.R. 2408: Protecting Girls’ Access to Education …; H.R. 3170: Small Business Development Center Cyber …; H.R. 4100: Foundation of the Federal Bar …; H.R. 4668: Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements …; H.R. 4743: Small Business 7(a) Lending Oversight …; H.R. 5044: Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation …; H.R. 5904: NOPEC; H.R. 6758: SUCCESS Act; H.R. 7093: Clean Up the Code Act … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (94th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (92nd percentile); House Republicans (90th percentile); All Representatives (94th percentile). |
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Got the 29th most cosponsors on their bills compared to House RepublicansChabot’s bills and resolutions had 545 cosponsors in the 115th 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 Ohio Delegation (88th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (78th percentile); House Republicans (88th percentile); All Representatives (85th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 26th most bills compared to House Republicans (tied with 13 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.Res. 288: Expressing support for the designation …; H.Res. 603: Recognizing November 25, 2017, as …; H.Res. 840: Expressing support for the designation …; H.Res. 1144: Recognizing November 24, 2018, as …; H.R. 619: To amend title 46, United … Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (76th percentile); House Republicans (84th percentile); All Representatives (80th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Cosponsored the 33rd most bills compared to House RepublicansChabot cosponsored 301 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 Ohio Delegation (69th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (50th percentile); House Republicans (86th percentile); All Representatives (55th percentile). |
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Wrote the 27th most laws compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 15 others)Chabot introduced 3 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 115th 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. 535: Taiwan Travel Act; H.R. 4743: Small Business 7(a) Lending Oversight …; H.R. 6758: SUCCESS Act Compare to all Ohio Delegation (81st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (78th percentile); House Republicans (72nd percentile); All Representatives (81st percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Ranked the 53rd top leader compared to All RepresentativesOur 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 115th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Chabot’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Ohio Delegation (88th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (84th percentile); House Republicans (82nd percentile); All Representatives (88th percentile). |
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Joining Bipartisan BillsOf the 301 bills that Chabot cosponsored, 17% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Ohio Delegation (47th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (31st percentile); House Republicans (65th percentile); All Representatives (38th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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 115th Congress) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
