Rep. Patsy Mink

Former Representative from Hawaii's 2^nd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1989-2002	Representative, Hawaii's 2^nd District
1971-1976	Representative, Hawaii's 2^nd District
1965-1971	Representative, Hawaii's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Mink was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Mink’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Mink’s bills had a total of 481 cosponsors in the 107^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Mink to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1965 to Sep 2002, Mink missed 622 of 11,127 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.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	33^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	53	1	1.9%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	3	10.0%	33^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	33^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	69	18	26.1%	33^rd
1966 Oct-Oct	34	18	52.9%	67^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	90	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	4	16.0%	33^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	1	2.2%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	4	5.4%	0^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	0^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	2	2.5%	0^th
1971 Jan-Mar	21	5	23.8%	67^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	44^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	3	4.2%	56^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	16	12.0%	33^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	11	9.7%	33^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	98	6	6.1%	33^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	8	16.0%	70^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	26^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	3	1.6%	11^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	53^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	180	3	1.7%	21^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	53^rd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	8	4.7%	37^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	4	2.7%	32^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	4	2.8%	21^st
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	30	15.1%	86^th
1975 Jul-Sep	139	13	9.4%	79^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	15	7.9%	69^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	5	4.8%	48^th
1976 Apr-Jun	261	60	23.0%	87^th
1976 Jul-Sep	270	133	49.3%	97^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	7	100.0%	93^rd
1990 Jul-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	18	12.6%	91^st
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	53^rd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	1	0.7%	18^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	14^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	6	3.7%	67^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	60^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	5	2.6%	54^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	79^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	1	0.5%	14^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	25^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	47^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	21^st
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	40^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	8	5.6%	76^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	2	0.7%	37^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	1	0.5%	20^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	16^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	3	1.6%	45^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	2	1.8%	49^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	10	6.1%	86^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	37^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	2	1.1%	35^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	4	2.5%	52^nd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	7	7.9%	84^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	2	1.1%	36^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	2	1.0%	34^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	4	2.2%	54^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	4	2.7%	52^nd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	57^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	5	1.8%	39^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	43^rd
2000 Oct-Dec	101	8	7.9%	55^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	4	5.3%	74^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	2	1.5%	34^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	6	3.9%	67^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	5	6.3%	76^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	3	1.5%	28^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	53	37.6%	99^th

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Patsy Mink [D-HI2, 1989-2002] leaves office as Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district

Sep 28, 2002

Elections and Offices

Rep. Patsy Mink [D-HI2, 1989-2002] takes office as Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district

Jan 03, 1989

Elections and Offices

Rep. Patsy Mink [D-HI2, 1989-2002] leaves office as Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Rep. Patsy Mink [D-HI2, 1989-2002] takes office as Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district

Jan 21, 1971

Elections and Offices

Rep. Patsy Mink [D-HI2, 1989-2002] leaves office as Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district

Jan 02, 1971