Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Pence sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Pence is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Pence sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Economics and Public Finance (22%) Science, Technology, Communications (17%) Health (13%) Taxation (13%) Law (9%) Commerce (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Pence’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 2932 (112th): Free Flow of Information Act of 2011
- H.R. 696 (112th): Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011
- H.R. 642 (112th): Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2011
- H.R. 245 (112th): To amend the Federal Reserve Act to remove the mandate on the ...
- H.R. 217 (112th): Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act
- H.R. 6415 (111th): Tax Relief Certainty Act
- H.R. 6406 (111th): To amend the Federal Reserve Act to remove the mandate on the ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 2001 to Jan 2013, Pence missed 451 of 8,568 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. ProPublica has tracked 153 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills