Hall was the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. She served from 1981 to 1984.
![Photo of Rep. Katie Hall [D-IN1, 1981-1984]](/static/legislator-photos/404943-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hall is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1984 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 Hall sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 15, 1979 to Oct 11, 1984. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Hall was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.J.Res. 655 (98th): A joint resolution designating February 16, 1985, as “Lithuanian Independence Day”.
- H.R. 5890 (98th): A bill to establish a commission to assist in the first observance of the Federal legal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
- H.R. 3706 (98th): A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal public holiday.
- H.R. 3345 (98th): A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Junior, a legal public holiday.
Does 4 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
Hall sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (100%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hall’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.J.Res. 655 (98th): A joint resolution designating February 16, 1985, as “Lithuanian Independence Day”.
- H.R. 5890 (98th): A bill to establish a commission to assist in the first observance ...
- H.R. 5720 (98th): Census Awareness and Accountability Act of 1984
- H.Res. 456 (98th): A resolution recognizing the Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of Lithuanian Independence Day.
- H.R. 5046 (98th): A bill for the relief of Steve Tandaric.
- H.R. 3706 (98th): A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the ...
- H.R. 3345 (98th): A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to make the ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1982 to Oct 1984, Hall missed 164 of 997 roll call votes, which is 16.4%. This is much worse than the median of 7.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. 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
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
