Hickenlooper is the junior senator from Colorado and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Hickenlooper is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan 3, 2027.
![Photo of Sen. John Hickenlooper [D-CO]](/static/legislator-photos/456797-200px.jpeg)
Committee Membership
John Hickenlooper sits on the following committees:
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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Space and Science subcommittee Chair
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Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Employment and Workplace Safety subcommittee Chair
Children and Families subcommittees -
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Enacted Legislation
Hickenlooper 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
Hickenlooper sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Commerce (23%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Energy (15%) Science, Technology, Communications (15%) Health (15%) Labor and Employment (15%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hickenlooper recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 4390: Accelerated Approval Transparency Act
- S. 4154: Simplifying Small Business Retirement Savings Act
- S. 4153: Incentivizing Small Business Retirement Savings Act
- S. 4044: REPLACE Act
- S. 3814: Modernizing Biosurveillance Capabilities and Epidemic Forecasting Act
- S. 3692: NET Act
- S. 3693: Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Recovery Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Jun 2022, Hickenlooper missed 1 of 770 roll call votes, which is 0.1%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of senators 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.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills