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Rep. Gerald Connolly

Representative for Virginia’s 11th District

pronounced JEH-ruld // KAH-nuh-lee

Connolly is the representative for Virginia’s 11th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 6, 2009. Connolly is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 74 years old.

Photo of Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA11]

Earmarks

Connolly proposed $24 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to Fairfax County Government for “Fairfax Family and Domestic Violence Shelter”
  • $3.1 million to Town of Herndon, Virginia for “Town of Herndon, Virginia - Widen East Spring Street”
  • $3.0 million to Fairfax County Government for “Fairfax County Trenchless Sewer Rehabilitation”

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

Connolly 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 Connolly has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Jun 21, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Gerald Connolly sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Connolly was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 9 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

Connolly sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (60%) International Affairs (20%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Connolly 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

Connolly voted No
Passed 314/117 on May 31, 2023.
This bill would enact a compromise reached by House Republicans and President Biden to avert an impending fiscal crisis related to the statutory debt limit. …
Connolly voted Yea
Connolly voted Aye
Passed 218/208 on Jun 18, 2015.
This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. …
Connolly voted Yea
Passed 219/206 on Dec 11, 2014.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December …
Connolly voted Aye
Connolly voted Aye
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 …

Missed Votes

From Jan 2009 to Jun 2024, Connolly missed 86 of 9,955 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.0% 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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