Hanna was the representative for California’s 34th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1963 to 1974.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hanna sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Private Legislation (23%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) International Affairs (15%) Social Welfare (12%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Housing and Community Development (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Health (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hanna’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 17538 (93rd): Fusion Energy Act
- H.Res. 1475 (93rd): A resolution to commend Nathan and Lilly Shapell.
- H.R. 16704 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Sergio Velikopoljski.
- H.R. 16277 (93rd): International Science and Technology Act
- H.R. 15680 (93rd): International Science and Technology Act
- H.R. 14946 (93rd): A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code in …
- H.R. 14947 (93rd): Medicare Long-Term Care Act
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1963 to Dec 1974, Hanna missed 982 of 3,272 roll call votes, which is 30.0%. This is much worse than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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.
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
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
