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Rep. Joseph Kennedy
- Massachusetts
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Party
Democratic
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Current Office
U.S. House
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First Elected
11/6/2012
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Next Election
2014
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Sponsored Bills
Congress 113
1
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CoSponsored Bills
Congress 113
31
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Missed Vote %
1.68%
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Votes with Party
95.31%
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Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy III is an American lawyer, politician and a member of the Kennedy family, currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 2013. He is a Democrat whose district stretches from the western suburbs of Boston to the state's South Coast. The son of former U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex offices before his election to Congress....
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Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy III is an American lawyer, politician and a member of the Kennedy family, currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district since 2013. He is a Democrat whose district stretches from the western suburbs of Boston to the state's South Coast. The son of former U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex offices before his election to Congress....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR5051
To ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees' birth control and other health care decisions.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR5031
To define STEM education to include computer science, and to support existing STEM education programs at the National Science Foundation.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR5029
To provide for the establishment of a body to identify and coordinate international science and technology cooperation that can strengthen the domestic science and technology enterprise and support United States foreign policy goals.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4885
Social Impact Bond Act
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee conc...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4578
Peace Corps Equity Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs....
Joseph Kennedy
has sponsored bill
HR4425
Perkins Modernization Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4415
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as f...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4241
To withdraw approval for the drug Zohydro ER and prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from approving such drug unless it is reformulated to prevent abuse.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4176
Science Laureates of the United States Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4159
America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4143
Children in Families First Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerne...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4143
To realign structures and reallocate resources in the Federal Government, in keeping with the core American belief that families are the best protection for children and the bedrock of any society, to bolster United States diplomacy and assistance targeted at ensuring that every child can grow up in a permanent, safe, nurturing, and loving family, and to strengthen intercountry adoption to the United States and around the world and ensure that it becomes a viable and fully developed option for providing families for children in need, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerne...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4109
To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4045
First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committe...
Joseph Kennedy
has co-sponsored bill HR4109
To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be known as National First Responders Day.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
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