Rep. Mike Thompson

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Thompson.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Thompson 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Thompson has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Sep 17, 2021. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Thompson sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Ways and Means
  • Select Revenue Measures subcommittee Chair

  Health subcommittees
• Joint Committee on Taxation

Enacted Legislation

Thompson was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 3589 (116th): Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act
• H.R. 8440 (116th): Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020
• H.R. 6039 (116th): To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, for the transfer of Mare Island Naval ...
• H.R. 806 (116th): Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2019
• H.R. 2254 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2635 Napa Street in Vallejo, California, as the “Janet Capello Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 3327 (115th): Jack Alderson Toxic Exposure Declassification Act
• H.R. 5106 (113th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo, California, as the “Philmore Graham Post Office Building”.

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Does 17 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

Thompson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (36%) Health (22%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%) Emergency Management (5%) Commerce (5%) Government Operations and Politics (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5176: Local Food Production Enhancement Act of 2021
• H.R. 4780: Refuge System Protection Act
• H.R. 4674: Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act of 2021
• H.R. 4675: Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act of 2021
• H.R. 4164: Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 2021
• H.R. 4107: IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act of 2021
• H.R. 3954: Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2021

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1999 to Sep 2021, Thompson missed 214 of 14,737 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% 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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills