Rep. Melton “Mel” Hancock

Sponsorship Analysis

Hancock was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hancock’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Hancock’s bills had a total of 0 cosponsors in the 104^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Hancock to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of Hancock’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 3464 (104th): To make a minor adjustment in the exterior boundary of the Devils ...
• H.R. 4588 (103rd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate the retail ...
• H.J.Res. 183 (103rd): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow ...
• H.J.Res. 31 (103rd): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit ...
• H.R. 193 (103rd): Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act
• H.R. 640 (102nd): Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act
• H.R. 4683 (101st): Judicial Taxation Prohibition Act

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Voting Record

From Jan 1989 to Sep 1996, Hancock missed 59 of 4,298 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• 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
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills