Joyce Beatty

14 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2013

• Representative OH-3 2013–present

• background Born March 12, 1950 (née Birdsong)
• background Previously senior vice president of outreach and engagement at Ohio State University
• role A Democrat who represented the 27th district in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1999 to 2008, serving for a time as minority leader
• role U.S. Representative for Ohio's 3rd congressional district (based in Columbus) since 2013
• role Chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 2021 to 2023

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

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• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 3 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.

• 22
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 419 cosponsored

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

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 22 bills sponsored

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

• 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.

• 3
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

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

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Financial Services Committee · oversees Finance
• Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee

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

• Economy & TaxesOppose from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

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

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

Data from Congress.gov