Jack Reed

36 years in the U.S. Congress · since 1991

• Senator RI 1997–present
• Representative RI-2 1991–1997

• background Born November 12, 1949; lawyer and former Army officer
• background United States Military Academy and Harvard University graduate
• background U.S. Army infantry officer, 82nd Airborne (1971–1991), retired Major
• role U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd district (1991–1997)
• role Senior U.S. senator from Rhode Island since 1996
• role Dean of Rhode Island's congressional delegation (since 1999)

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 46
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 318 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 46 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 11 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 20
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Jack Reed. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Armed Services Committee Ranking Member · oversees Defense
• Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Ranking Member · oversees Finance
• Airland Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Appropriations Committee
• Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · oversees Finance
• Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Technology, Telecom
• Department of Defense Subcommittee
• Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Intelligence (Select) Committee Ex Officio
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Personnel Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Seapower Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Strategic Forces Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Cybersecurity Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Economic Policy Subcommittee
• Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
• Securities, Insurance, and Investment Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Reed most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Reed connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov