Rep. Jill Long Thompson
Former Representative from Indiana's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Indiana's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Long Thompson was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Long Thompson’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Long Thompson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103rd 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 Long Thompson’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4675 (103rd): To maintain the ability of United States agriculture to remain viable and ...
- H.R. 4412 (103rd): To require the head of any Federal agency to differentiate between fats, ...
- H.R. 3790 (103rd): Rural Consumer Protection Act of 1994
- H.R. 3409 (103rd): To amend the Social Security Act to exclude the Unemployment Trust Fund ...
- H.R. 3253 (103rd): To rename Huntington Lake, Indiana, the “J. Edward Roush Lake”.
- H.R. 2735 (103rd): Congressional Ethics Reform Act
- H.R. 1980 (103rd): Rural Community Water Pollution Control Assistance Act of 1993
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Voting Record
From Apr 1989 to Nov 1994, Long Thompson missed 16 of 2,943 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills