Humphrey was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1990.
![Photo of Sen. Gordon Humphrey [R-NH, 1979-1990]](/static/legislator-photos/405795-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Humphrey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1990 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Humphrey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1985 to Oct 28, 1990. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Humphrey was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 1524 (101st): Pemigewasset River Study Act of 1989
- S.J.Res. 143 (101st): A joint resolution to designate the week of December 10, 1989, through December 16, 1989, as “National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week”.
- S.J.Res. 332 (100th): A joint resolution to designate the period commencing December 11, 1988, and ending December 17, 1988, as “National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week”.
- S. 1914 (100th): A bill to designate the Wildcat River in the State of New Hampshire as a unit of the National Wild and Scenic River System.
- S.J.Res. 136 (100th): A joint resolution to designate the week of December 13, 1987, through December 19, 1987, as “National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week”.
- S.J.Res. 362 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week of December 14, 1986, through December 20, 1986, as “National Drunk Driving Awareness Week”.
- S.J.Res. 365 (99th): A joint resolution welcoming the Afghan Alliance.
Does 15 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
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 at least about half 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
Humphrey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (23%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) International Affairs (14%) Taxation (12%) Health (11%) Energy (9%) Families (9%) Labor and Employment (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Humphrey recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 2970 (101st): Lamprey River Study Act of 1990
- S.J.Res. 235 (101st): A joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to limit Congressional terms.
- S. 1681 (101st): Civil Rights of Infants Act
- S. 1524 (101st): Pemigewasset River Study Act of 1989
- S. 1513 (101st): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny …
- S. 1260 (101st): A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to continue to …
- S.J.Res. 143 (101st): A joint resolution to designate the week of December 10, 1989, through …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1979 to Oct 1990, Humphrey missed 184 of 4,859 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is on par with the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
