Rep. John Edward Porter

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Porter is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2000 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Porter sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1995 to Dec 15, 2000. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Porter was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 4577 (106th): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001
• H.R. 2264 (105th): Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998
• H.J.Res. 415 (103rd): Designating the week beginning October 16, 1994, as “National Penny Charity Week”.
• H.J.Res. 282 (100th): A joint resolution to designate August 1, 1987, as “Helsinki Human Rights Day”.
• H.J.Res. 667 (99th): A joint resolution to designate August 1, 1986, as “Helsinki Human Rights Day”.
• H.J.Res. 218 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week beginning September 15, 1985, as “National Dental Hygiene Week”.
• H.R. 3221 (98th): A bill for the relief of Harvey E. Ward.

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Does 7 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

Porter sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) International Affairs (13%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Environmental Protection (11%) Labor and Employment (10%) Law (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Porter recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5656 (106th): Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies …
• H.R. 4577 (106th): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001
• H.Con.Res. 328 (106th): Expressing the sense of the Congress in recognition of the 10th anniversary …
• H.R. 4454 (106th): To authorize appropriations to expand and enhance United States international broadcasting operations …
• H.R. 4440 (106th): To authorize appropriations to expand and enhance United States international broadcasting operations …
• H.R. 4326 (106th): To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Diiodomethyl-p-tolylsulfone.
• H.R. 4327 (106th): To extend the temporary suspension of duty on B-Bromo-B-nitrostyrene.

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1980 to Dec 2000, Porter missed 416 of 10,848 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is on par with the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills