Rep. James Paul “Jim” Johnson

Former Representative for Colorado’s 4^th District

Johnson was the representative for Colorado’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1980.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Johnson is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 Johnson sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Johnson was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

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Does 6 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

Johnson sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (37%) Agriculture and Food (19%) Private Legislation (12%) Water Resources Development (9%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Transportation and Public Works (7%) Commerce (5%) Environmental Protection (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Johnson recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Dec 1980, Johnson missed 863 of 5,167 roll call votes, which is 16.7%. This is much worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	68^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	17	8.9%	56^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	4	3.1%	34^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	25	13.7%	80^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	5	6.3%	38^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	39	22.9%	90^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	30	20.3%	92^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	88	62.4%	100^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	28^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	14	7.0%	57^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	13	8.4%	66^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	16^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	22^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	31	11.6%	64^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	26	9.3%	65^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	5	71.4%	93^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	100	14	14.0%	85^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	55	20.1%	92^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	36	18.2%	88^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	6	4.4%	37^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	2	1.3%	11^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	44	14.7%	76^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	82	26.6%	93^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	4	5.3%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	29^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	35	15.8%	83^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	40	20.2%	89^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	47	24.7%	88^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	63	42.6%	96^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	34	17.3%	81^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	66	34.4%	94^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	25	37.3%	89^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
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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills