Sen. Cory Gardner

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Gardner.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Gardner is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 Gardner has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 15, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Cory Gardner sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather subcommittee Chair

  Aviation and Space, Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Transportation and Safety subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy subcommittee Chair

  Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues subcommittees
• Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  Energy, National Parks, Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, Water and Power subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Gardner was the primary sponsor of 19 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 2661: National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020
• S. 1678: Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act of 2019
• S. 3422: Great American Outdoors Act
• S. 132: Strengthening U.S. Olympics Act
• S. 36: Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act
• S. 35: Amache Study Act
• S. 38: Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2019

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Does 19 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

Gardner sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (26%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (18%) Taxation (11%) Health (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Energy (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Gardner’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• S. 4856: A bill to authorize the construction of a major medical facility for the ...
• S.Res. 735: A resolution designating September 29, 2020, as “National Urban Wildlife Refuge Day”.
• S. 4700: A bill to establish a Center for Artificial Intelligence of the National Oceanic ...
• S. 4701: Ports-to-Plains Highway Act of 2020
• S. 4575: FIGHT Censorship Act
• S. 4506: Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2020
• S. 4300: A bill to amend the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 to require ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Dec 2020, Gardner missed 27 of 1,799 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators 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