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Rep. Joe Neguse

Representative for Colorado’s 2nd District

pronounced joh // nuh-GOOSS

Neguse is the representative for Colorado’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Neguse’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 40 years old.

Photo of Rep. Joe Neguse [D-CO2]

Earmarks

Neguse proposed $31 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to Town of Erie for “Town of Erie CO07 Improvements”
  • $5 million to Town of Gypsum for “Town of Gypsum Wastewater Infrastructure”
  • $5 million to Eagle County Regional Airport for “Eagle County Regional Airport Federal Inspection Station”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Neguse is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Joe Neguse sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Neguse was the primary sponsor of 25 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 25 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 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Neguse sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (24%) Armed Forces and National Security (20%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) Commerce (11%) Health (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Taxation (8%) Emergency Management (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Neguse recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Neguse voted Yea

Neguse voted Yea

Neguse voted Nay

Passed 363/70 on Dec 7, 2021.
This is the yearly military spending policy bill, which governs how military and related federal appropriations can be spent under the law. This bill was …

Neguse voted Nay

Neguse voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Nov 2024, Neguse missed 7 of 3,154 roll call votes, which is 0.2%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives 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, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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