Rep. John Hostettler
Former Representative from Indiana's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Indiana's 8th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Hostettler was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hostettler’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Hostettler 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 Hostettler’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4240 (109th): Secure America Act of 2005
- H.R. 3410 (109th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a religious ...
- H.R. 3409 (109th): Federal Tax Withholding Act of 2005
- H.R. 2679 (109th): Veterans’ Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion ...
- H.R. 2293 (109th): To provide special immigrant status for aliens serving as translators with the ...
- H.R. 1243 (109th): Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2005
- H.R. 1100 (109th): Marriage Protection Act of 2005
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Voting Record
From Jan 1995 to Dec 2006, Hostettler missed 139 of 7,172 roll call votes, which is 1.9%. 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills