Hagedorn was the representative for Minnesota’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1982.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hagedorn is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Hagedorn sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hagedorn sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (22%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Private Legislation (16%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Labor and Employment (11%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (5%) Finance and Financial Sector (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hagedorn’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7063 (97th): A bill to repeal the withholding of tax from interest and dividends.
- H.R. 6900 (97th): Agricultural Export Expansion and Sales Assistance Act of 1982
- H.R. 6541 (97th): Agricultural Export Expansion Act of 1982
- H.R. 6423 (97th): Reciprocal Agricultural Trade Act of 1982
- H.R. 6424 (97th): A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1970, to prohibit restrictions ...
- H.R. 6233 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make ...
- H.R. 6147 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to make ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1975 to Dec 1982, Hagedorn missed 460 of 4,901 roll call votes, which is 9.4%. This is on par with the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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
