Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Kildee 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 2013. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Kildee is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Kildee sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (35%) Government Operations and Politics (29%) Native Americans (10%) Health (6%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (6%) Economics and Public Finance (6%) Social Welfare (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Kildee’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6175 (112th): National Park Service Study Act of 2012
- H.Res. 574 (112th): Expressing support for designation of the week of March 12, 2012, through ...
- H.R. 3821 (112th): After School for America’s Children Act of 2012
- H.R. 3568 (112th): Native Culture, Language, and Access for Success in Schools Act
- H.R. 2928 (112th): To provide relief to the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for settlement of ...
- H.R. 2358 (112th): Reengaging Americans in Serious Education by Uniting Programs Act
- H.R. 1619 (112th): MADE Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Jan 2013, Kildee missed 33 of 21,630 roll call votes, which is 0.2%. This is better than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills