Alcee Hastings, Representative for Florida's 20th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Hastings has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Hastings is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

2015 Statistics

Read our 2015 Report Card for Hastings for more statistics.

Committee Membership

Alcee Hastings sits on the following committees:

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
House Committee on Rules
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hastings sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (35%) Health (20%) Taxation (9%) Social Welfare (9%) Animals (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Education (7%) Labor and Employment (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1993 to Sep 2016, Hastings missed 1,464 of 15,912 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 37 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Jan-Mar	127	28	22.0%	95^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	3	1.6%	30^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	9	5.5%	83^rd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	3	2.2%	62^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	82	86.3%	99^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	24	11.0%	94^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	60^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	46^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	7	2.5%	70^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	2	1.1%	29^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	7	3.0%	73^rd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	2	1.1%	30^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	4	3.6%	56^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	76^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	14	8.6%	96^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	4	5.6%	72^nd
1997 Apr-Jun	174	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	55	23.7%	98^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	1	0.6%	18^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	44	23.8%	96^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	8	4.0%	65^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	74^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	17	9.2%	91^st
1999 Jul-Sep	204	29	14.2%	97^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	1	0.7%	21^st
2000 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	60^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	6	2.2%	48^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	57^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	48	47.5%	99^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	53^rd
2001 Apr-Jun	135	1	0.7%	20^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	15	10.1%	94^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	25	16.3%	96^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	12	5.9%	79^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	32	22.7%	99^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	26	42.6%	99^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	1	1.1%	38^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	13	5.4%	85^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	7	3.6%	75^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	12	7.9%	80^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	6	5.8%	59^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	107	48.4%	99^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	58	36.0%	99^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	10	17.2%	88^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	22	8.1%	89^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	17	11.6%	94^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	49	30.1%	98^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	25	30.9%	97^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	17	6.2%	87^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	2	1.3%	41^st
2006 Nov-Dec	27	2	7.4%	64^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	42	10.7%	95^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	4	1.3%	31^st
2007 Oct-Dec	263	31	11.8%	94^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	9	6.0%	69^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	4	1.2%	24^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	15	7.3%	84^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	9	60.0%	99^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	1	0.6%	22^nd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	31	10.2%	94^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	1	0.4%	12^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	9	3.7%	62^nd
2010 Jan-Mar	195	5	2.6%	46^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	26	11.9%	93^rd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	20	13.2%	95^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	28	28.3%	96^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	1	0.5%	26^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	2	0.7%	34^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	1	0.4%	24^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	1	0.5%	18^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	1	0.7%	23^rd
2012 Apr-Jun	299	5	1.7%	53^rd
2012 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	46^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	8	15.7%	93^rd
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	40^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	60	27.9%	99^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	25^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	3	2.2%	55^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	39	17.8%	96^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	10	6.8%	88^th
2014 Nov-Dec	49	3	6.1%	85^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	10	6.9%	88^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	16	6.6%	89^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	3	2.2%	63^rd
2015 Oct-Dec	177	3	1.7%	62^nd
2016 Jan-Mar	137	19	13.9%	90^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	16	7.8%	83^rd
2016 Jul-Sep	232	138	59.5%	99^th

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
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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