Rep. Mike Johnson

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Johnson.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Johnson is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives 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 Johnson has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Aug 7, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Johnson sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on the Judiciary
  • The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittee Ranking Member

  Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet subcommittees
• House Committee on Natural Resources
  Oversight and Investigations, Water, Oceans, and Wildlife subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Johnson was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 894: Lake Bistineau Land Title Stability Act
• H.R. 2457: J. Bennett Johnston Waterway Hydropower Extension Act of 2017

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Does 2 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

Johnson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (18%) Environmental Protection (14%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Immigration (9%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Animals (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 7251: Proxy Vote Windfall Prohibition Act
• H.R. 6000: To reauthorize a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of certain water-related feasibility ...
• H.R. 6001: To reauthorize a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of ...
• H.R. 5591: Critical Habitat Improvement Act
• H.R. 5384: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 ...
• H.Res. 721: Calling for the establishment of an app ratings board to enforce consistent and ...
• H.R. 3424: Streamlining Environmental Approvals Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2017 to Jul 2020, Johnson missed 97 of 2,089 roll call votes, which is 4.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. 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.

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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
• Office of Mike Johnson for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills