Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson’s 2018 Report Card
Representative
from Georgia's 4th District
Democrat
Serving Jan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2025
These statistics cover Johnson’s record during the 115th Congress (Jan 3, 2017-Jan 3, 2019) and compare him to other representatives also serving at the end of the session. Last updated on Jan 20, 2019.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Johnson’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
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Got influential cosponsors the most often compared to Georgia Delegation8 of Johnson’s bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward. Those bills were: H.R. 1299: Berta Caceres Human Rights in …; H.R. 1374: Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017; H.R. 1746: Airport Security Act of 2017; H.R. 1907: Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion …; H.R. 3132: Restoring Confidence in America’s Elections …; H.R. 3664: To amend the Omnibus Crime …; H.R. 4332: Grand Jury Reform Act of …; H.R. 6005: Minorities in Aviation Education Act … Compare to all Georgia Delegation (93rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (83rd percentile); House Democrats (86th percentile); All Representatives (88th percentile). |
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Got the most cosponsors on their bills compared to Georgia DelegationJohnson’s bills and resolutions had 644 cosponsors in the 115th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (93rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (81st percentile); House Democrats (84th percentile); All Representatives (88th percentile). |
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Got their bills out of committee the least often compared to Georgia Delegation (tied with 1 other)Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Johnson introduced 0 bills in the 115th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Compare to all Georgia Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Ranked 2nd most politically left compared to Georgia DelegationOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 115th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Johnson’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Georgia Delegation (7th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (20th percentile); House Democrats (31st percentile); All Representatives (14th percentile). |
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Introduced the 3rd most bills compared to Georgia DelegationJohnson introduced 21 bills and resolutions in the 115th Congress. View Bills » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (56th percentile); House Democrats (56th percentile); All Representatives (59th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 3rd most often compared to Georgia DelegationIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 597 bills that Johnson cosponsored, 23% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (52nd percentile); House Democrats (30th percentile); All Representatives (59th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Supported government transparency the 3rd most often compared to Georgia DelegationGovTrack looked at whether Johnson supported any of 32 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Johnson 3 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Johnson cosponsored H.R. 3462: Office of Government Ethics Independence …; H.R. 4396: ME TOO Congress Act; H.Res. 630: Requiring each Member, officer, and … Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (68th percentile); House Democrats (67th percentile); All Representatives (68th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 28th most bills compared to All RepresentativesJohnson cosponsored 597 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (93rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (92nd percentile); House Democrats (86th percentile); All Representatives (94th percentile). |
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Ranked the 41st top leader compared to House DemocratsOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 115th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Johnson’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all Georgia Delegation (79th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (65th percentile); House Democrats (80th percentile); All Representatives (70th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 48th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 20 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 5 of Johnson’s 21 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party Johnson caucused with in the 115th Congress. Compare to all Georgia Delegation (64th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (25th percentile); House Democrats (28th percentile); All Representatives (28th percentile). Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic. |
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Laws EnactedJohnson introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 115th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all Georgia Delegation (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 1374: Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017 Compare to all Georgia Delegation (29th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (9th percentile); House Democrats (14th percentile); All Representatives (15th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsJohnson held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Johnson’s Profile » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (36th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (21st percentile); House Democrats (41st percentile); All Representatives (39th percentile). |
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Missed VotesJohnson missed 3.4% of votes (41 of 1,210 votes) in the 115th Congress. View Johnson’s Profile » Compare to all Georgia Delegation (57th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (52nd percentile); All Representatives (60th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. |
Additional Notes
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of the 115th Congress) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
