Rep. Mike Thompson

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2016 Report Card for Thompson.

Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Thompson has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Thompson is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Committee Membership

Mike Thompson sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Ways and Means
  • Member, Subcommittee on Health
  • Member, Subcommittee on Tax Policy

Enacted Legislation

Thompson was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• 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”.
• H.R. 3004 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 260 California Drive in Yountville, California, as the “Private First Class Alejandro R. Ruiz Post ...
• H.R. 6387 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 337 West Clark Street in Eureka, California, as the “Sam Sacco Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 6237 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1351 2nd Street in Napa, California, as the “Tom Kongsgaard Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 2429 (110th): To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide an exception to the 60-day limit on Medicare reciprocal billing arrangements between two physicians during the ...
• H.R. 3007 (110th): To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide an exception to the 60-day limit on Medicare reciprocal billing arrangements between two physicians during the ...
• H.R. 233 (109th): Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act

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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 about one third or more 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 (28%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (18%) Health (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Education (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Immigration (8%) Commerce (5%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 3327: Jack Alderson Toxic Exposure Declassification Act
• H.R. 3260: Airline Passenger Protection Act of 2017
• H.R. 3159: Family Business Preservation Estate Tax Act
• H.Res. 368: Disapproving of the irresponsible actions and negligence of President Trump which may have ...
• H.Res. 367: Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.
• H.R. 2550: Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2017
• H.R. 2346: Support and Defend Our Military Personnel and Their Families Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1999 to Jul 2017, Thompson missed 170 of 12,749 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 91 explanations for these missed votes. 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:

• Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills