Rep. Dennis “Denny” Hastert

Former Representative from Illinois's 14^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1987-2007	Representative	Illinois's 14^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Hastert was a centrist Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hastert’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Hastert to other members of the House of Representatives in the 110^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Hastert’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1987 to Nov 2007, Hastert missed 447 of 8,179 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2007. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	3	1.6%	29^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	36^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	53^rd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	25^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	38^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	52^nd
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	126	2	1.6%	53^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	14^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	58^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	32^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	51^st
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	49^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	9	6.5%	82^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	59^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	41^st
1992 Jan-Mar	66	4	6.1%	64^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	41^st
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	43^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	1	0.5%	15^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	3	1.8%	59^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	5	3.7%	70^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	16	16.8%	98^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	2	0.9%	32^nd
1994 Jul-Sep	142	1	0.7%	22^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	16	5.7%	88^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	63^rd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	6	2.6%	63^rd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	8	4.3%	74^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	1	0.9%	34^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	38^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	1	0.6%	21^st
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	4	2.3%	54^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	7	3.0%	68^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	1	0.6%	15^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	5	5.6%	74^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	5	2.7%	58^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	18	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	52	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jul-Sep	25	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jan-Mar	10	1	10.0%	92^nd
2001 Apr-Jun	19	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	21	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jul-Sep	9	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	7	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	17	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Apr-Jun	17	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jul-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	20	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jul-Sep	21	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	54	25.4%	99^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	75	19.1%	95^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	90	28.4%	97^th
2007 Oct-Dec	199	75	37.7%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Dennis “Denny” Hastert [R-IL14, 1987-2007] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district

Nov 26, 2007

Elections and Offices

Rep. Dennis “Denny” Hastert [R-IL14, 1987-2007] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district

Jan 06, 1987