James “Jim” Johnson, former Representative from Colorado's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1980	Representative	Colorado's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Johnson was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Johnson’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Johnson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1973 to Dec 1980, Johnson missed 852 of 5,135 roll call votes, which is 16.6%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	70^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	16	8.5%	57^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	36^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	25	13.9%	83^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	39^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	39	23.1%	91^st
1974 Jul-Sep	148	30	20.3%	93^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	88	62.4%	100^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	14	7.0%	60^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	12	8.2%	67^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	18^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	24^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	31	11.6%	68^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	26	9.3%	68^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	5	71.4%	93^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	100	14	14.0%	87^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	55	20.1%	94^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	36	18.2%	90^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	40^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	2	1.3%	11^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	44	14.7%	79^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	81	26.4%	94^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	4	5.3%	50^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	31^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	35	15.9%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	40	20.2%	91^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	47	24.7%	89^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	62	42.2%	97^th
1980 Apr-Jun	191	29	15.2%	78^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	65	34.0%	94^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	25	37.3%	90^th

Primary Sources

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

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James “Jim” Johnson [R-CO4, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. James “Jim” Johnson [R-CO4, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. James “Jim” Johnson

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices