Rep. John Dingell

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2014 Report Card for Dingell.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Dingell is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2014 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 Dingell sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2009 to Dec 11, 2014. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Dingell was the primary sponsor of 44 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 5341 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Orndorf Drive in Brighton, Michigan, as the “Joyce Rogers Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 3962 (111th): Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010
• H.R. 3961 (111th): Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
• H.R. 6946 (110th): To make a technical correction in the NET 911 Improvement Act of 2008.
• H.R. 7077 (110th): QI Program Supplemental Funding Act of 2008
• H.R. 3668 (110th): TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act of 2007
• H.R. 3580 (110th): Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007

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Does 44 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

Dingell sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (41%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (24%) Government Operations and Politics (24%) Finance and Financial Sector (12%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 4421 (113th): MotorCities National Heritage Area Extension Act
• H.R. 1338 (113th): Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act
• H.Res. 4 (113th): Authorizing the Clerk to inform the President of the election of the ...
• H.R. 6310 (112th): Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act
• H.R. 5329 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on Poly(urea/formaldehyde/isobutyraldehyde).
• H.R. 5328 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on Laromer PE 55 F.
• H.R. 2482 (112th): Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1956 to Dec 2014, Dingell missed 2,265 of 28,066 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2014. 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
• 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills