James Hansen, former Representative for Utah's 1st Congressional District

Hansen was the representative for Utah’s 1^st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 2002.

Photo of Rep. James Hansen [R-UT1, 1981-2002]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hansen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Hansen sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 19, 2002. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Hansen was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 24 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hansen sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (24%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Law (12%) Animals (10%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Environmental Protection (9%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Water Resources Development (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Nov 2002, Hansen missed 766 of 11,242 roll call votes, which is 6.8%. This is much worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	22	24.4%	96^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	25	23.6%	96^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	13	9.2%	73^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	4	8.3%	67^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	22	18.5%	93^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	24	12.4%	82^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	18	18.2%	81^st
1983 Jan-Mar	43	19	44.2%	99^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	27	14.8%	88^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	49^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	22	15.4%	93^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	46^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	21	9.4%	67^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	9	9.4%	76^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	10	6.5%	66^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	52^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	65^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	19^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	53^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	20	9.9%	84^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	26	43.3%	96^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	7	17.9%	90^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	2	1.1%	13^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	24^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	19	11.4%	82^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	5	10.2%	81^st
1988 Apr-Jun	161	38	23.6%	98^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	6	3.9%	48^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	73^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	7	6.7%	82^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	3	2.3%	49^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	9	7.4%	78^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	57^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	8	5.3%	76^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	55^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	4	2.8%	49^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	32^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	1	0.7%	18^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	62^nd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	6	3.7%	67^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	6	9.1%	78^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	75^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	30	15.3%	94^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	44^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	6	4.7%	74^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	23^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	4	2.4%	62^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	6	4.5%	79^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	39^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	40^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	8	5.6%	76^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	4	1.4%	55^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	11	5.8%	85^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	10	4.3%	79^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	4	2.2%	53^rd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	1	0.9%	36^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	84^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	5	3.1%	63^rd
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	19^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	18	7.8%	91^st
1997 Oct-Nov	163	6	3.7%	64^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	2	2.2%	49^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	12	6.0%	83^rd
1998 Oct-Dec	74	8	10.8%	90^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	37^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	4	2.2%	54^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	5	2.5%	63^rd
1999 Oct-Nov	146	6	4.1%	70^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	65^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	23	8.3%	89^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	77^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	28	27.7%	93^rd
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	50^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	10	7.4%	87^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	16	10.7%	94^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	3	2.0%	44^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	1	1.3%	30^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	17	8.4%	83^rd
2002 Jul-Sep	141	16	11.3%	89^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	4	6.6%	68^th

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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