Long Thompson was the representative for Indiana’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. She served from 1989 to 1994.
![Photo of Rep. Jill Long Thompson [D-IN4, 1989-1994]](/static/legislator-photos/406920-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Long Thompson is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Long Thompson sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Long Thompson was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
Long Thompson sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (23%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Taxation (9%) Education (9%) Environmental Protection (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Long Thompson recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 4675 (103rd): To maintain the ability of United States agriculture to remain viable and …
- H.R. 4412 (103rd): To require the head of any Federal agency to differentiate between fats, …
- H.R. 3790 (103rd): Rural Consumer Protection Act of 1994
- H.R. 3409 (103rd): To amend the Social Security Act to exclude the Unemployment Trust Fund …
- H.R. 3253 (103rd): To rename Huntington Lake, Indiana, the “J. Edward Roush Lake”.
- H.R. 2735 (103rd): Congressional Ethics Reform Act
- H.R. 1980 (103rd): Rural Community Water Pollution Control Assistance Act of 1993
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1989 to Nov 1994, Long Thompson missed 16 of 2,943 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
