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Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX4]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 4th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:4th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 3, 1923 / 86 years old

To contact Ralph Hall, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Hall for more biographical and issue information.

Congressional Service

Ralph Hall has represented Texas’s 4th congressional district since 1981.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Ralph Hall:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1981-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 4th
(was preceeded by Herbert Roberts)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Hall is a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Hall is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Hall sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Hall’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Hall, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Hall and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Hall.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Hall's bills without Hall returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordRalph Hall missed 264 (2%) of 12533 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Ralph Hall sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Ralph Hall has sponsored 44 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 34 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Hall has co-sponsored 1837 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hall and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Hall’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 356: Expressing support for the designation of February 8, 2010, as "Boy Scouts of America Day", in celebration of the Nation's largest youth scouting organization's 100th anniversary.
H.Res. 607: Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
H.Res. 116: Expressing support for the designation of February 8, 2010, as "Boy Scouts of America Day", in celebration of the Nation's largest youth scouting organization's 100th anniversary.
H.R. 1067: Notch Fairness Act of 2009
H.R. 469: Produced Water Utilization Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.