Sen. Kay Hutchison
Former Senator for Texas
Hutchison was a senator from Texas and was a Republican. She served from 1993 to 2012.
![Photo of Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX, 1993-2012]](/static/legislator-photos/300054-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hutchison is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2013 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 Hutchison sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 2, 2013. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Hutchison was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 1954 (112th): Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of the Armed Forces Act
- S. 3191 (111th): Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010
- S. 614 (111th): A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (”WASP”).
- S. 474 (110th): A bill to award a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D.
- S. 1596 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 South Getty Street in Uvalde, Texas, as the “Dolph S. Briscoe, Jr. …
- S. 370 (110th): A bill to designate the headquarters building of the Department of Education in Washington, DC, as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Federal Building.
- S. 3661 (109th): Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006
Does 24 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
Hutchison sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (23%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Transportation and Public Works (14%) Taxation (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Social Welfare (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hutchison recently introduced the following legislation:
- S.Res. 617 (112th): A resolution congratulating the recipient of the 2012 Heisman Memorial Trophy.
- S. 3639 (112th): ACHIEVE Act
- S. 3532 (112th): Church Plan Clarification Act of 2012
- S. 3533 (112th): Defend and Save Social Security Act of 2012
- S.Res. 512 (112th): A resolution recognizing the 100th anniversary of Rice University.
- S.J.Res. 45 (112th): A joint resolution amending title 36, United States Code, to designate June …
- S. 2338 (112th): Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jun 1993 to Jan 2013, Hutchison missed 207 of 6,573 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2013. 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.
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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
