Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Hall sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2010. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Hall is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hall sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (29%) Government Operations and Politics (28%) Taxation (9%) Law (9%) Labor and Employment (8%) Families (8%) Energy (5%) Commerce (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hall’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6180 (111th): To amend the conservation provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 ...
- H.R. 6034 (111th): To amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the musical piece ...
- H.R. 6033 (111th): Higher Education Affordability Act of 2010
- H.R. 5868 (111th): Safe Drill Act of 2010
- H.R. 5609 (111th): To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to prohibit any person ...
- H.R. 5077 (111th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the alternative ...
- H.R. 4637 (111th): Help Small Businesses Start and Grow Act of 2010
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Voting Record
From Jan 2007 to Dec 2010, Hall missed 110 of 3,531 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is on par with the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. ProPublica has tracked 6 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- Office of John Hall for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills