Rep. Patsy Mink
Former Representative from Hawaii’s 2nd District
Democrat
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | State / District |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Hawaii's 2nd District | |
| Representative | Hawaii's 2nd District | |
| Representative | Hawaii's 1st District |
See Also: Bioguide
Sponsorship Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Mink sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into her 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). Mink is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Some of Mink’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5297 (107th): Health Care Continuation Coverage Act of 2002
- H.R. 5296 (107th): To revive the system of parole for Federal prisoners.
- H.R. 5066 (107th): To amend title 37, United States Code, to limit the authority of ...
- H.R. 5067 (107th): Compact of Free Association Children’s Health Improvement Act of 2002
- H.R. 5068 (107th): Ovarian and Uterine Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2002
- H.R. 4908 (107th): To require gifts of less than $100 to be disregarded in determining ...
- H.R. 4787 (107th): To amend the impact aid program under section 8003 of the Elementary ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1965 to Sep 2002, Mink missed 622 of 11,172 roll call votes, which is 5.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 2002. 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
- 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills