Hopkins was the representative for Kentucky’s 6th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hopkins is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Hopkins sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Hopkins was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5871 (101st): Farm Poundage Quota Revisions Act of 1990
- H.R. 4458 (100th): Parimutuel Licensing Simplification Act of 1988
- H.J.Res. 440 (100th): A joint resolution to designate the week beginning April 10, 1988, as “National Child Care Awareness Week”.
Does 3 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
Hopkins sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Water Resources Development (24%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Housing and Community Development (10%) Taxation (10%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Sports and Recreation (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hopkins recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 3385 (102nd): To amend title V of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act …
- H.R. 3386 (102nd): State Solid Waste Management Act
- H.R. 1729 (102nd): To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to provide Federal …
- H.R. 1564 (102nd): To place contingencies on the divestiture of certain locks and dams.
- H.R. 5871 (101st): Farm Poundage Quota Revisions Act of 1990
- H.R. 3832 (101st): To place contingencies on the divestiture of certain locks and dams.
- H.R. 3597 (101st): To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Federal employees …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1979 to Oct 1992, Hopkins missed 400 of 6,659 roll call votes, which is 6.0%. This is on par with the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
