Rep. Joe Wilson

District:: South Carolina - District 2
Party:: Republican

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
2001-2015	Representative, South Carolina's 2^nd District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Wilson is a far-right Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. Wilson’s bills have had a total of 428 cosponsors in the 113^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Wilson to other members of the House of Representatives on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Joe Wilson sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Armed Services
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Personnel
- Member, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
House Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Dec 2001 to Apr 2014, Wilson missed 155 of 8,883 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2001 Oct-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	1	1.3%	36^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	1	0.5%	14^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	1	1.6%	45^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	5	5.3%	78^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	9	3.8%	69^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	2	1.0%	34^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	2	1.9%	32^nd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	10	4.5%	70^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	4	2.5%	43^rd
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	2	2.2%	37^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	2	0.7%	26^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	2	1.4%	42^nd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	2	1.2%	29^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	22	8.0%	94^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	14	8.8%	94^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	1	0.3%	9^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	3	0.9%	22^nd
2007 Oct-Dec	263	2	0.8%	15^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	3	2.0%	32^nd
2008 Apr-Jun	321	12	3.7%	60^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	2	1.0%	26^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	3	1.0%	25^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	3	1.1%	33^rd
2009 Oct-Dec	246	3	1.2%	26^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	5	2.6%	44^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	8	3.7%	63^rd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	1	0.5%	25^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	17	6.0%	88^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	4	1.6%	55^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	1	0.5%	18^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	1	0.7%	24^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	48^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	36^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	215	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	200	1	0.5%	25^th
2013 Oct-Dec	137	3	2.2%	53^rd
2014 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Apr	29	0	0.0%	0^th