Rep. Jody Hice

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Hice.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hice is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Hice has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 14, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Jody Hice sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  • National Security subcommittee Ranking Member

  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Government Operations subcommittees
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Water, Oceans, and Wildlife subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Hice was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 5687 (114th): GAO Mandates Revision Act of 2016

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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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hice sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (27%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (27%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Immigration (11%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (5%) Transportation and Public Works (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5439: Law Enforcement Officers Safety Expansion Act
• H.R. 3357: Merit Systems Protection Board Reauthorization Act of 2019
• H.R. 2612: Federal Employee Disclosure (FED) Transparency Act
• H.R. 1496: Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2019
• H.Res. 132: Providing for the consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 109) recognizing the duty ...
• H.R. 891: Nuclear Family Priority Act
• H.R. 606: Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Feb 2020, Hice missed 66 of 3,306 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. 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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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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills