Rep. Henry Brown Jr.

Former Representative from South Carolina's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2001-2010	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Brown was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Brown’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Brown to other members of the House of Representatives in the 111^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 Brown’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2001 to Dec 2010, Brown missed 272 of 6,962 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2001 Jan-Mar	75	1	1.3%	38^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	3	2.0%	46^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	1	0.5%	13^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	4	2.8%	53^rd
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	5	2.1%	51^st
2003 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	1	1.1%	19^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	15	5.5%	76^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	35	24.0%	99^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	2	1.2%	30^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	3	1.1%	27^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	1	0.6%	28^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	30	14.1%	98^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	6	1.5%	46^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	7	2.2%	57^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	1	0.4%	9^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	7	4.7%	55^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	2	0.6%	12^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	7	4.0%	72^nd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	3	1.1%	30^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	23	9.3%	87^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	21	10.8%	90^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	57	26.0%	98^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	11	7.3%	82^nd
2010 Nov-Dec	99	26	26.3%	92^nd

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Bill Text

H.R. 1454 (111th): Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010

This bill’s text for status Passed Congress/Enrolled Bill (Jan 01, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:36 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 5414 (111th): To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, and for other purposes.

This bill’s text for status Referred to Senate Committee (Aug 05, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:17 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 5414 (111th): To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina, and for other purposes.

This bill’s text for status Passed the House (Engrossed) (Jul 30, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:11 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1454 (111th): Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010

This bill’s text for status Passed the Senate (Engrossed) with an Amendment (Jul 29, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:02 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1454 (111th): Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010

This bill’s text for status Reported by Senate Committee (Jul 27, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 7:59 p.m.