![Photo of Rep. Chris Chocola [R-IN2, 2003-2006]](/data/photos/400072-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Chocola sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Chocola is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Enacted Legislation
Chocola was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 6131 (109th): To permit certain expenditures from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
- H.R. 3770 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 205 West Washington Street in Knox, Indiana, as the “Grant W. Green Post Office Building”.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Chocola sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (21%) Labor and Employment (18%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Commerce (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Health (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Law (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Chocola’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6274 (109th): Unemployment Tax Equity Act of 2006
- H.R. 6131 (109th): To permit certain expenditures from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
- H.R. 5986 (109th): Working American Competitiveness Act
- H.Res. 903 (109th): Repealing rule XXVII of the Rules of the House of Representatives relating ...
- H.R. 5129 (109th): Truth in Accounting Act of 2006
- H.R. 4625 (109th): Health Care Freedom of Choice Act
- H.R. 4236 (109th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain farming ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 2003 to Dec 2006, Chocola missed 22 of 2,435 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. 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:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills