Rep. Danny Davis

Representative for Illinois’s 7^th District

pronounced DAN-ee // DAY-viss

Davis is the representative for Illinois’s 7^th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 7, 1997. Davis’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 83 years old.

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Earmarks

Davis proposed $34 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

$3.3 million to Village of Bellwood for “The Village of Bellwood Drinking Water Improvement Program”
$3.0 million to Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for “CTA – Blue Line Austin Station ADA Improvements”
$2.5 million to Navy Pier, Inc. for “Safety and Security Systems at Navy Pier”

View all requests and justifications on Davis’s website »

View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »

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

Davis 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

Danny Davis sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Ways and Means
- Work and Welfare subcommittee Ranking Member
Health subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Davis was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 24 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

Davis sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (28%) Health (25%) Families (13%) Social Welfare (10%) Private Legislation (9%) Education (6%) Labor and Employment (5%) Transportation and Public Works (4%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Davis recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Davis voted Nay

H.Res. 1160: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8034) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in …

Passed 316/94 on Apr 19, 2024.

Davis voted Yea

H.R. 1615: Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act

Passed 248/180 on Jun 13, 2023.

Davis voted Yea

H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

Passed 329/101 on Jul 14, 2022.

Davis voted Nay

H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Davis voted Aye

H.R. 1732: Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015

Passed 261/155 on May 12, 2015.

The Regulatory Integrity Protection Act would roll back a new regulation that redefines “waters of the United States.” The regulation both expands the list of …

Davis voted No

H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015

Passed 319/108 on Sep 17, 2014.

Davis voted Nay

H.R. 4225 (113th): SAVE Act of 2014

Passed 392/19 on May 20, 2014.

Davis voted Aye

H.R. 6233 (112th): Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2012

Passed 223/197 on Aug 2, 2012.

Davis voted Aye

H.R. 1249 (112th): Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Passed 304/117 on Jun 23, 2011.

The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack …

Davis voted No

H.R. 2082 (110th): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

Passed 222/199 on Dec 13, 2007.

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Nov 2024, Davis missed 1,084 of 17,862 roll call votes, which is 6.1%. This is much worse 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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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	49^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	9	5.2%	86^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	3	1.3%	35^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	1	0.6%	21^st
1998 Jan-Mar	89	9	10.1%	84^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	78^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	18^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	5	6.8%	82^nd
1999 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	90^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	14	7.6%	88^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	4	2.7%	57^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	12	12.6%	84^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	4	1.4%	43^rd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	31^st
2000 Oct-Dec	101	20	19.8%	84^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	63^rd
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	7	4.7%	80^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	4	2.6%	51^st
2002 Jan-Mar	79	18	22.8%	96^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	7	3.4%	67^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	3	2.1%	51^st
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	2	2.1%	56^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	10	4.2%	74^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	21	10.9%	96^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	14	9.3%	84^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	22	21.2%	96^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	2	0.9%	24^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	10	6.2%	75^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	3	3.3%	45^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	5	1.8%	44^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	5	3.4%	74^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	30	37.0%	99^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	5	1.8%	43^rd
2006 Jul-Sep	159	15	9.4%	94^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	2	7.4%	61^st
2007 Jan-Mar	213	7	3.3%	74^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	6	1.5%	53^rd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	18	5.7%	92^nd
2007 Oct-Dec	263	17	6.5%	81^st
2008 Jan-Mar	149	19	12.8%	95^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	23	7.2%	85^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	5	2.4%	53^rd
2008 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	86^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	11	6.3%	90^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	20	6.6%	88^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	26	9.7%	96^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	17	6.9%	85^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	12	6.2%	81^st
2010 Apr-Jun	219	20	9.1%	86^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	6	4.0%	78^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	36	36.4%	97^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	9	4.2%	85^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	6	2.1%	68^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	15	6.1%	88^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	26	12.5%	95^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	30	19.9%	98^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	5	1.7%	51^st
2012 Jul-Sep	152	18	11.8%	94^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	5	9.8%	84^th
2013 Jan-Jan 112th Congress	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	6	6.7%	81^st
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	9	4.5%	83^rd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	14	10.2%	92^nd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	20	13.5%	95^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	18	8.2%	89^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	8	5.4%	84^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	6	12.2%	95^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	6	4.2%	71^st
2015 Apr-Jun	244	16	6.6%	88^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	3	2.2%	66^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	8	4.5%	85^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	15	10.9%	83^rd
2016 Apr-Jun	204	16	7.8%	86^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	7	3.0%	78^th
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	23	11.1%	96^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	16	11.8%	95^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	19	9.5%	91^st
2017 Oct-Dec	167	6	3.6%	75^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	44	34.1%	99^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	17	9.2%	91^st
2018 Jul-Sep	102	6	5.9%	86^th
2018 Nov-Dec	85	39	45.9%	95^th
2019 Jan-Mar	136	7	5.1%	86^th
2019 Apr-Jun	294	7	2.4%	68^th
2019 Jul-Sep	125	3	2.4%	80^th
2019 Oct-Dec	146	8	5.5%	81^st
2020 Jan-Mar	102	4	3.9%	69^th
2020 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	78^th
2020 Jul-Sep	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2020 Oct-Dec	40	2	5.0%	66^th
2021 Jan-Mar	97	2	2.1%	65^th
2021 Apr-Jun	107	6	5.6%	90^th
2021 Jul-Sep	108	2	1.9%	65^th
2021 Oct-Dec	137	1	0.7%	34^th
2022 Jan-Mar	102	0	0.0%	0^th
2022 Apr-Jun	197	4	2.0%	79^th
2022 Jul-Sep	178	15	8.4%	98^th
2022 Nov-Dec	72	0	0.0%	0^th
2023 Jan-Mar	182	12	6.6%	91^st
2023 Apr-Jun	107	2	1.9%	54^th
2023 Jul-Sep	224	2	0.9%	48^th
2023 Oct-Dec	211	0	0.0%	0^th
2024 Jan-Mar	104	15	14.4%	93^rd
2024 Apr-Jun	231	14	6.1%	75^th
2024 Jul-Sep	120	10	8.3%	83^rd
2024 Nov-Nov	23	2	8.7%	74^th

Primary Sources

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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

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Earmarks

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Committee Membership

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recently Introduced Bills

Voting Record

Key Votes

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Missed Votes

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