Rep. Richard Thomas Hanna

Former Representative for California’s 34^th District

Hanna was the representative for California’s 34^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1963 to 1974.

Bioguide

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Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hanna sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Private Legislation (23%) International Affairs (15%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Social Welfare (12%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Housing and Community Development (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Health (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hanna recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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, major life events, and running for higher office.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	59^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	2	7.1%	88^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	3	6.0%	60^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	3	8.8%	91^st
1964 Jul-Sep	49	6	12.2%	96^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	80^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	6	21.4%	87^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	15	28.3%	93^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	98	18	18.4%	82^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	8	26.7%	88^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	23	45.1%	95^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	26	36.1%	88^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	22	55.0%	75^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	48^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	70^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	9	9.2%	95^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	6	6.6%	67^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	9	36.0%	95^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	9	60.0%	100^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	62^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	8	17.8%	78^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	36	40.9%	95^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	7	20.0%	73^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	29	39.2%	93^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	10	13.2%	51^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	32	39.5%	89^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	11	50.0%	99^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	37	41.1%	98^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	34	45.9%	98^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	50	37.3%	95^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	26^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	41	36.0%	92^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	53^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	32	64.0%	94^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	72^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	191	57	29.8%	94^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	76	58.0%	98^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	73	40.1%	95^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	25	31.6%	94^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	72	42.4%	97^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	62	41.9%	94^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	95	67.4%	98^th

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