Rep. Joel Hefley
Former Representative from Colorado's 5th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Colorado's 5th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Hefley was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hefley’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Hefley to other members of the House of Representatives in the 109th 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 Hefley’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6287 (109th): National Heritage Areas Partnership Act
- H.R. 5839 (109th): Leadership PAC Prohibition Act of 2006
- H.Res. 788 (109th): Supporting the goals and ideals of Peace Officers Memorial Day.
- H.Res. 776 (109th): Supporting the observance of a “National Day of the American Cowboy”.
- H.R. 4988 (109th): House Ethics Reform Act of 2006
- H.R. 4907 (109th): To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery ...
- H.R. 4818 (109th): South Park National Heritage Area Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Dec 2006, Hefley missed 258 of 11,066 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. This is better than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills