Rep. Norman “Norm” Dicks

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Dicks is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013 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 Dicks sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 1, 2013. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Dicks was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 1162 (112th): To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 1061 (111th): Hoh Indian Tribe Safe Homelands Act
• H.R. 2996 (111th): Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
• H.R. 4140 (110th): To designate the Port Angeles Federal Building in Port Angeles, Washington, as the “Richard B. Anderson Federal Building”.
• H.R. 5161 (103rd): To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to permit the prompt sharing of timber sale receipts of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land …
• H.R. 4196 (103rd): To ensure that all timber-dependent communities qualify for loans and grants from the Rural Development Administration.
• H.R. 4489 (102nd): To provide for a land exchange with the city of Tacoma, Washington.

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Does 15 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

Dicks sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (31%) Native Americans (31%) Economics and Public Finance (23%) Environmental Protection (15%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Dicks recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 6716 (112th): To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 …
• H.R. 5995 (112th): Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2012
• H.R. 3222 (112th): To designate certain National Park System land in Olympic National Park as …
• H.R. 1162 (112th): To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for …
• H.R. 6527 (111th): To provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for …
• H.R. 4029 (111th): Puget Sound Recovery Act of 2009
• H.R. 2996 (111th): Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1977 to Jan 2013, Dicks missed 1,003 of 21,630 roll call votes, which is 4.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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
• 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills