Rep. Frederica Wilson
Representative for Florida’s 24th District
pronounced fred-JREE-kuh // WIL-sun
Wilson is the representative for Florida’s 24th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2013. Wilson is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 81 years old.
She was previously the representative for Florida’s 17th congressional district as a Democrat from 2011 to 2012.
Earmarks
Wilson proposed $77 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $12 million to Town of Bay Harbor Islands, FL for “Broad Causeway Bridge Replacement”
- $10 million to City of Miami Beach for “North Beach Living Shoreline Neighborhood Resilience Project”
- $7 million to Florida International University for “Community-wide Biscayne Bay Restoration, Conservation and Education Program”
View all requests and justifications on Wilson’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
Wilson 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 Wilson has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 28, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Frederica Wilson sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Wilson was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 6213 (116th): No Cost for COVID-19 Testing Act
- H.R. 1636 (116th): Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys Act
- H.R. 3833 (114th): To require a regional strategy to address the threat posed by Boko Haram.
- H.R. 1092 (114th): To designate the Federal building located at 2030 Southwest 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida, as the “Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building”.
- H.R. 4030 (113th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18640 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the “Father Richard Marquess-Barry Post Office Building”.
Does 5 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
Wilson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (25%) Labor and Employment (19%) Transportation and Public Works (15%) Health (10%) International Affairs (10%) Housing and Community Development (8%) Immigration (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Wilson recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8192: High School Voter Empowerment Act of 2024
- H.Res. 1142: Recognizing the Tenth Anniversary of the Chibok Girls Kidnapping by the Boko Haram …
- H.R. 7978: Family Leave for Parental Involvement in Education Act
- H.R. 7884: Strengthening Job Corps Act of 2024
- H.R. 7886: Jobs for All Act
- H.R. 7885: Jobs Now Act of 2024
- H.R. 7852: LEAP Act
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2011 to May 2024, Wilson missed 707 of 8,253 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. This is much worse 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.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- 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