Debatable: Members ranked by bills debated

Most bills introduced by members of Congress end up 'dying in committee', and are never considered (or debated) by the full House or Senate. This chart ranks members based by the number of bills they sponsored that received a floor debate. The data is from the 11Xth Congress, supplied by GovTrack.us.

Donald Young (R-AK) 176
John McCain (R-AZ) 173
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) 161
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 114
Edward Kennedy (D-MA) 108
Charles Grassley (R-IA) 96
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 95
Pete Domenici (R) 92
James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) 85
Arlen Specter (R-PA) 84
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 82
Daniel Akaka (D-HI) 82
Richard Lugar (R-IN) 79
Ted Stevens (R) 76
Harry Reid (D-NV) 74
John Warner (R) 68
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 66
Christopher Smith (R-NJ) 65
Daniel Inouye (D-HI) 63
James Inhofe (R-OK) 62
Thomas Davis (R) 62
John Kerry (D-MA) 61
Susan Collins (R-ME) 59
Joseph Biden (D) 59
Larry Craig (R) 56
John Rockefeller (D-WV) 56
Carl Levin (D-MI) 56
Charles Schumer (D-NY) 56
Christopher Dodd (D-CT) 55
Gordon Smith (R) 55
Kay Hutchison (R-TX) 54
Christopher Bond (R-MO) 53
George Miller (D-CA) 53
Michael Enzi (R-WY) 53
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) 49
Charles Rangel (D-NY) 49
Richard Durbin (D-IL) 49
Lamar Smith (R-TX) 48
Jon Kyl (R-AZ) 47
Trent Lott (I) 46
John Coble (R-NC) 44
H. Saxton (R) 43
Ron Wyden (D-OR) 43
Max Baucus (D-MT) 43
Wayne Allard (R) 40
Judd Gregg (R-NH) 39
Michael Castle (R-DE) 38
George Voinovich (R-OH) 38
Richard Shelby (R-AL) 38
Thomas Harkin (D-IA) 38
Hillary Clinton (D) 38
James Oberstar (D-MN) 37
Henry Waxman (D-CA) 35
Craig Thomas (I) 35
Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) 35
Byron Dorgan (D-ND) 35
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 34
Robert Bennett (R-UT) 34
Chris Cannon (R) 34
Patty Murray (D-WA) 34
Ken Calvert (R-CA) 34
Thad Cochran (R-MS) 33
John Doolittle (R) 32
Tom Udall (D-NM) 32
John Conyers (D-MI) 32
Barney Frank (D-MA) 31
Steven LaTourette (R-OH) 30
Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) 29
Tim Johnson (D-SD) 29
Greg Walden (R-OR) 29
Tom Lantos (I) 28
Mark Udall (D-CO) 28
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) 28
Barbara Cubin (R) 28
Wayne Gilchrest (R) 27
Peter King (R-NY) 25
Pat Roberts (R-KS) 25
Nick Rahall (D-WV) 25
Richard Baker (I) 25
Frank Wolf (R-VA) 25
Herbert Kohl (D-WI) 24
Joe Barton (R-TX) 24
John Dingell (D-MI) 24
Howard McKeon (R-CA) 24
Walter Herger (R-CA) 24
Russell Feingold (D-WI) 24
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) 23
George Radanovich (R-CA) 23
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) 23
C. W. Bill Young (R-FL) 23
Michael Crapo (R-ID) 23
John Eric Ensign (R-NV) 23
Mary Landrieu (D-LA) 22
Bart Stupak (D-MI) 22
Howard Berman (D-CA) 22
Frederick Stephen Upton (R-MI) 22
Jefferson Sessions (R-AL) 21
Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) 21
Peter DeFazio (D-OR) 21
Eliot Engel (D-NY) 20
Spencer Bachus (R-AL) 20
Frederick Boucher (D-VA) 20
John Duncan (R-TN) 20
Samuel Brownback (R-KS) 20
Heather Wilson (R) 20
Robert Byrd (D-WV) 19
Clifford Stearns (R-FL) 19
Doc Hastings (R-WA) 19
Dale Kildee (D-MI) 19
Elton Gallegly (R-CA) 19
Ralph Regula (R) 19
Roy Blunt (R-MO) 18
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 18
Jim Bunning (R-KY) 18
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) 18
Jerry Lewis (R-CA) 18
Stevan Pearce (R-NM) 17
Bill Nelson (D-FL) 17
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) 17
Charles Norwood (I) 17
Jerry Moran (R-KS) 17
Darrell Issa (R-CA) 17
James Walsh (R) 17
John Boehner (R-OH) 17
Richard Burr (R-NC) 17
Steven Chabot (R) 16
David Lee Hobson (R) 16
Elijah Cummings (D-MD) 16
Charles Hagel (R) 16
Gerald Weller (R) 16
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) 16
Bart Gordon (D-TN) 16
Jim DeMint (R-SC) 16
Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) 16
Mark Souder (R-IN) 16
John Shimkus (R-IL) 15
John Reed (D-RI) 15
Kent Conrad (D-ND) 15
Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) 15
Rick Renzi (R) 15
Robert Brady (D-PA) 15
Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) 15
John Mica (R-FL) 15
Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) 15
Solomon Ortiz (D-TX) 15
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) 15
C. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) 15
Maxine Waters (D-CA) 15
Christopher Shays (R) 15
Edward Markey (D-MA) 15
Michael Simpson (R-ID) 15
Thomas Allen Coburn (R-OK) 14
Gary Miller (R-CA) 14
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 14
Lois Capps (D-CA) 14
Dennis Moore (D-KS) 14
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) 14
Bennie Thompson (D-MS) 14
Donald Manzullo (R-IL) 14
Eleanor Norton (D-DC) 14
Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) 14
Harold Rogers (R-KY) 14
Michael Thompson (D-CA) 14
Paul Gillmor (I) 13
Thomas Carper (D-DE) 13
John Sununu (R) 13
Ken Salazar (D) 13
Danny Davis (D-IL) 13
Bob Filner (D-CA) 13
Frank Pallone (D-NJ) 13
John Cornyn (R-TX) 13
Edolphus Towns (D-NY) 13
Peter Visclosky (D-IN) 13
Dan Burton (R-IN) 13
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) 13
Jo Ann Davis (I) 12
Mark Pryor (D-AR) 12
David Vitter (R-LA) 12
Corrine Brown (D-FL) 12
Jack Kingston (R-GA) 12
Dennis Rehberg (R-MT) 12
Jon Porter (R) 12
Edward Whitfield (R-KY) 12
John Boozman (R-AR) 12
Brian Baird (P-WA) 12
Virginia Brown-Waite (R-FL) 12
Robert Menendez (D-NJ) 12
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) 11
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) 11
Ike Skelton (D-MO) 11
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) 11
Jeff Miller (R-FL) 11
Peter Sessions (R-TX) 11
Adam Schiff (D-CA) 11
John Thune (R-SD) 11
Norm Coleman (R-MN) 11
James McCrery (R) 11
Judy Biggert (R-IL) 11
Jerry Costello (D-IL) 11
Nathan Deal (R-GA) 11
John Lewis (D-GA) 11
James Moran (D-VA) 11
Tom Tancredo (R) 11
Hilda Solis (D-CA) 11
Nita Lowey (D-NY) 11
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 10
Gene Taylor (D-MS) 10
Phil Gingrey (R-GA) 10
Walter Beaman Jones (R-NC) 10
Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) 10
David Dreier (R-CA) 10
Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) 10
John McHugh (R-NY) 10
Evan Bayh (D-IN) 10
Ronald Kind (D-WI) 10
Melquiades Martinez (R-FL) 10
James Ramstad (R) 10
Bobby Jindal (I) 9
Chaka Fattah (D-PA) 9
Juanita Millender-McDonald (I) 9
Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) 9
David Weldon (R) 9
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) 9
William Delahunt (D-MA) 9
Joseph Pitts (R-PA) 9
David Ross Obey (D-WI) 9
Rob Bishop (R-UT) 9
Robert Scott (D-VA) 9
Stephen Buyer (R-IN) 9
Deborah Pryce (R) 9
Darlene Hooley (D) 9
Elizabeth Dole (R) 9
Ralph Hall (R-TX) 9
Ric Keller (R) 9
William Lacy Clay (D-MO) 9
Edward Royce (R-CA) 9
Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) 9
Philip English (R) 9
Bobby Rush (D-IL) 9
David Daniel Boren (D-OK) 8
Diane Watson (D-CA) 8
James Clyburn (D-SC) 8
Joseph Knollenberg (R) 8
Charles Pickering (R) 8
Thomas Allen (D) 8
James McGovern (D-MA) 8
Roger Wicker (R-MS) 8
John Murtha (D-PA) 8
Collin Peterson (D-MN) 8
Thomas Edwards (D-TX) 8
Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) 8
Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) 8
Bob Etheridge (D-NC) 8
Vito Fossella (R) 8
John Isakson (R-GA) 8
Jim Gerlach (R-PA) 8
Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) 8
Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) 8
Frank Lucas (R-OK) 8
Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) 8
Norman Dicks (P-WA) 8
George Butterfield (D-NC) 8
Geoff Davis (R-KY) 7
David Camp (R-MI) 7
Steny Hoyer (D-MD) 7
Mike Ross (D-AR) 7
Scott Garrett (R-NJ) 7
John Shadegg (R-AZ) 7
Albert Wynn (D) 7
Ron Lewis (R) 7
Ray LaHood (R) 7
John Spratt (D-SC) 7
John Salazar (D-CO) 7
Anthony David Weiner (D-NY) 7
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 7
José Serrano (D-NY) 7
Jim Matheson (D-UT) 7
Addison Wilson (R-SC) 7
Todd Platts (R-PA) 7
Linda Sánchez (D-CA) 7
Michael Turner (R-OH) 7
Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) 7
Alan Mollohan (D-WV) 7
Martin Meehan (I) 6
Suellen Myrick (R-NC) 6
Kevin Brady (R-TX) 6
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) 6
E. Benjamin Nelson (D-NE) 6
Alcee Hastings (D-FL) 6
Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) 6
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) 6
Albio Sires (D-NJ) 6
Patrick Tiberi (R-OH) 6
Paul Ryan (R-WI) 6
Thomas Reynolds (R) 6
Barbara Lee (D-CA) 6
Robin Hayes (R) 6
James McDermott (P-WA) 6
Zach Wamp (R-TN) 6
Ted Poe (R-TX) 6
Raymond Green (D-TX) 6
Brad Sherman (D-CA) 6
Mike Rogers (R-MI) 6
Michael Doyle (D-PA) 6
Michael Michaud (D-ME) 6
Marilyn Musgrave (R) 6
Devin Nunes (R-CA) 6
Joe Baca (D-CA) 6
Robert Wexler (D-FL) 6
William Jefferson (D) 6
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) 6
Timothy Bishop (D-NY) 6
W. Todd Akin (R-MO) 6
J. Hastert (I) 6
Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) 6
David Wu (D-OR) 6
John Kline (R) 6
Barack Obama (D) 6
Rush Holt (D-NJ) 6
Sam Farr (D-CA) 6
Donna M.C. Christian-Christensen (D-VI) 6
Tim Mahoney (D) 6
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) 6
Ed Pastor (D-AZ) 6
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) 6
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) 6
Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) 6
John Sarbanes (D-MD) 5
Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) 5
Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) 5
John Peterson (R) 5
Nicholas Lampson (D) 5
Robert Andrews (D-NJ) 5
Eric Cantor (R-VA) 5
Ralph Miller (D-NC) 5
Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) 5
Gary Ackerman (D-NY) 5
Peter Welch (D-VT) 5
John Hall (D-NY) 5
Shelley Berkley (D-NV) 5
Bill Shuster (R-PA) 5
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) 5
Shelley Capito (R-WV) 5
Samuel Johnson (R-TX) 5
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) 5
Robert Aderholt (R-AL) 5
Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) 5
Christopher Carney (D-PA) 5
Steven Rothman (D-NJ) 5
William Pascrell (D-NJ) 5
Terry Everett (R) 5
Anna Eshoo (D-CA) 5
Fortney Stark (D-CA) 5
Allen Boyd (D-FL) 5
Sanford Bishop (D-GA) 5
Thomas Latham (R-IA) 5
John Olver (D-MA) 5
James Randy Forbes (R-VA) 5
David Scott (D-GA) 5
Adam Smith (P-WA) 4
Donald Payne (D-NJ) 4
Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) 4
Kenny Hulshof (R-MO) 4
John Larson (D-CT) 4
Mark Kirk (R-IL) 4
Tim Murphy (R-PA) 4
Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) 4
Claire McCaskill (D-MO) 4
Michael McCaul (R-TX) 4
John Russell Carnahan (D-MO) 4
Rick Larsen (P-WA) 4
Richard Neal (D-MA) 4
Kay Granger (R-TX) 4
Jason Altmire (D-PA) 4
Michael Rogers (R-AL) 4
Luis Fortuño (R) 4
David George Reichert (R-WA) 4
John Linder (R-GA) 4
Zachary Space (D-OH) 4
Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) 4
Virgil Goode (R) 4
Jay Inslee (P-WA) 4
Julia Carson (I) 4
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) 4
Daniel Lungren (R-CA) 4
John Carter (R-TX) 4
Timothy Ryan (D-OH) 4
Michael McNulty (D) 4
Nancy Boyda (D) 4
Xavier Becerra (D-CA) 4
Dean Heller (R-NV) 4
John Sullivan (R-OK) 4
Christopher Van Hollen (D-MD) 4
Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) 4
Jon Tester (D-MT) 4
Louise Slaughter (D-NY) 4
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) 4
Jane Harman (D-CA) 4
Stephen Cohen (D-TN) 4
Bernard Sanders (I-VT) 3
Melvin Watt (D-NC) 3
Candice Miller (R-MI) 3
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 3
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) 3
Joseph Sestak (D-PA) 3
Phil Hare (D-IL) 3
Albert Chandler (D-KY) 3
Louis Gohmert (R-TX) 3
Douglas McIntyre (D-NC) 3
William Thornberry (R-TX) 3
Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) 3
Sander Levin (D-MI) 3
Henry Brown (R-SC) 3
Jesse Jackson (D-IL) 3
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) 3
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) 3
Bruce Braley (D-IA) 3
Susan Davis (D-CA) 3
David Price (D-NC) 3
Joseph Crowley (D-NY) 3
Joseph Shuler (D-NC) 3
Paul Hodes (D-NH) 3
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) 3
Ron Klein (D-FL) 3
Al Green (D-TX) 3
John Barrasso (R-WY) 3
Charles Dent (R-PA) 3
Tom Cole (R-OK) 3
Charles Boustany (R-LA) 3
K. Michael Conaway (R-TX) 3
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) 3
Samuel Graves (R-MO) 3
John Tanner (D-TN) 3
Michael Burgess (R-TX) 3
Gregory Meeks (D-NY) 3
Victor Snyder (D-AR) 3
Rodney Alexander (R-LA) 3
Donald Cazayoux (D) 3
Diana DeGette (D-CO) 3
Melissa Bean (D-IL) 3
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) 3
Jim Costa (D-CA) 3
Kendrick Meek (D-FL) 2
John Kuhl (R) 2
Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS) 2
Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) 2
Tom Feeney (R) 2
Grace Napolitano (D-CA) 2
Michael Ferguson (R) 2
Leonard Boswell (D-IA) 2
Timothy Johnson (R-IL) 2
Douglas Lamborn (R-CO) 2
Virginia Foxx (R-NC) 2
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D) 2
Michael Capuano (D-MA) 2
Connie Mack (R-FL) 2
Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) 2
Jeff Flake (R-AZ) 2
Henry Cuellar (D-TX) 2
Steve Israel (D-NY) 2
Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) 2
Gerald McNerney (D-CA) 2
Betty McCollum (D-MN) 2
Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) 2
Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) 2
J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC) 2
Joseph Courtney (D-CT) 2
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) 2
Robert Inglis (R-SC) 2
Keith Ellison (D-MN) 2
Jean Schmidt (R-OH) 2
Mazie Hirono (D-HI) 2
Brian Higgins (D-NY) 2
Baron Hill (D-IN) 2
Lee Terry (R-NE) 2
Steven Kagen (D-WI) 2
Tim Holden (D-PA) 2
Christopher Murphy (D-CT) 2
Mary Fallin (R-OK) 2
Gwendolynne Moore (D-WI) 2
John Yarmuth (D-KY) 2
John B.T. Campbell (R-CA) 2
James Langevin (D-RI) 2
Stephen Lynch (D-MA) 2
Henry Johnson (D-GA) 2
Charles Melancon (D-LA) 2
James Webb (D-VA) 2
Vern Buchanan (R-FL) 2
Robert Berry (D-AR) 2
Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) 2
Ronald Paul (W-TX) 2
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) 2
Robert Cramer (D) 1
Patrick McHenry (R-NC) 1
Betty Sutton (D-OH) 1
Laura Richardson (D-CA) 1
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) 1
Brian Bilbray (R-CA) 1
Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) 1
Kenny Marchant (W-TX) 1
Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) 1
John Culberson (R-TX) 1
Timothy Walz (D-MN) 1
Michael Honda (D-CA) 1
Adam Putnam (R-FL) 1
Doris Matsui (D-CA) 1
Yvette Clarke (D-NY) 1
Dave Loebsack (D-IA) 1
Nicola Tsongas (D-MA) 1
Steve King (R-IA) 1
Michael Arcuri (D-NY) 1
Thomas Petri (R-WI) 1
Jim Cooper (D-TN) 1
Gus Michael Bilirakis (R-FL) 1
Mike Pence (R-IN) 1
Paul Broun (R-GA) 1
Peter Roskam (R-IL) 1
K. Speier (D-CA) 1
Timothy Walberg (R) 1
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) 1
Thelma Drake (R) 1
Robert Wittman (R-VA) 1
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI) 1
Robert Casey (D-PA) 1
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) 1
John Barrow (D-GA) 1
Joe Donnelly (D-IN) 1
Patrick Murphy (D-PA) 1
James Marshall (D-GA) 0
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) 0
Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) 0
Bill Foster (D-IL) 0
Thomas Price (R-GA) 0
Trent Franks (R-AZ) 0
Lincoln Davis (D-TN) 0
John Tierney (D-MA) 0
Josiah Bonner (R-AL) 0
Charles Wilson (D-OH) 0
Bill Sali (R) 0
André Carson (D-IN) 0
Travis Childers (D-MS) 0
David Davis (R) 0
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) 0
Adrian Smith (R-NE) 0
Robert Latta (R-OH) 0
Kathy Castor (D-FL) 0
Donna Edwards (D-MD) 0
Bob Corker (R-TN) 0
Artur Davis (D-AL) 0
Stephen Scalise (R-LA) 0
Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) 0
James Jordan (R-OH) 0