Rep. Yvette Herrell
Former Representative for New Mexico’s 2nd District
pronounced EE-vet // HAIR-ell
Herrell was the representative for New Mexico’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. She served from 2021 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Yvette Herrell [R-NM2, 2021-2022]](/static/legislator-photos/456834-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Herrell was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Herrell voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates were also charged with submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona) and Trump himself faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, coordinating the fraudulent slates of electors, and inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Herrell.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Herrell is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 Herrell sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Herrell sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Energy (21%) Immigration (21%) Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Health (12%) Environmental Protection (12%) International Affairs (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Herrell recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9006 (117th): To establish deadlines for the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary …
- H.R. 8705 (117th): Veteran Recruitment Act
- H.Res. 1248 (117th): Of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain documents …
- H.R. 7835 (117th): SHOW UP Act of 2022
- H.R. 7464 (117th): Anti-Caravan Act of 2022
- H.R. 7293 (117th): Energy Permitting Certainty Act
- H.R. 7100 (117th): They Had Our Back We Have Theirs Act of 2022
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Dec 2022, Herrell missed 25 of 998 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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
- Office of Rep. Herrell for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
