Sen. Tina Smith
Senator for Minnesota
pronounced TEE-nuh // smith
Smith is the junior senator from Minnesota and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan. 3, 2018. Smith is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan. 3, 2027. She is 67 years old.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2024 Report Card for Smith.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Smith is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate 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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan. 6, 2021 to April 1, 2025. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN, 2018-2026] sits on the following committees:
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Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Housing, Transportation, and Community Development subcommittee Ranking Member
Digital Assets, Economic Policy subcommittees -
Senate Committee on Finance
- Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth subcommittee Ranking Member
- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Enacted Legislation
Smith was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- S. 3198 (117th): Registration for Index-Linked Annuities Act
- S. 3506 (117th): Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Act
- S. 1491 (117th): Rural MOMS Act
- S. 199 (116th): Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act
- S. 3499 (116th): Free COVID–19 Testing Act
- S. 2282 (116th): Tribal Access to Homeless Assistance Act of 2019
- S. 2654 (115th): Community Connect Grant Program Act of 2018
Does 7 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
Smith sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (41%) Education (12%) Agriculture and Food (11%) Native Americans (11%) Labor and Employment (6%) Taxation (6%) Commerce (6%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Smith recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 1237: A bill to establish the New Producer Economic Security Program within the Farm …
- S. 1157: A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct …
- S. 951: Stop Comstock Act
- S. 660: Bus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 2025
- S. 638: A bill to amend the Act of June 22, 1948.
- S. 621: A bill to accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of …
- S. 622: Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2018 to Apr 2025, Smith missed 34 of 2,783 roll call votes, which is 1.2%. This is better than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of senators 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 absences, 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 Tina Smith for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills