Rep. Jerry McNerney
Former Representative for California’s 9th District
pronounced JEH-ree // muk-NER-nee
McNerney was the representative for California’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 2013 to 2022.
He was previously the representative for California’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 2007 to 2012.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for McNerney.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
McNerney is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 McNerney sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
McNerney was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 6722 (117th): To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in French Camp, California, as the “Richard A. Pittman VA Clinic”.
- H.R. 3784 (117th): Advancing IoT for Precision Agriculture Act of 2021
- H.R. 1841 (117th): Digital Equity Act of 2021
- H.R. 6096 (116th): READI Act
- H.R. 2575 (116th): AI in Government Act of 2020
- H.R. 5386 (116th): Promoting Better Patient Data Security Act of 2019
- H.R. 4973 (116th): Trusting Commercial Communications Networks Act of 2019
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
McNerney sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Science, Technology, Communications (20%) Education (18%) Energy (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Commerce (11%) Environmental Protection (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Water Resources Development (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
McNerney recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.J.Res. 101 (117th): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the …
- H.R. 9065 (117th): Student Loan Earned Relief Act
- H.R. 8311 (117th): Grid Resilience Act
- H.Res. 1189 (117th): Supporting the goals and ideals of “World Wi-Fi Day”.
- H.R. 7847 (117th): Water Efficiency, Conservation, and Sustainability Act of 2022
- H.Res. 1034 (117th): Supporting the goals and ideals of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
- H.Res. 1009 (117th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the consideration of …
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Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2007 to Dec 2022, McNerney missed 193 of 10,828 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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.
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