Sen. Tim Johnson

State:: South Dakota
Seniority:: Senior
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1997-2015	Senator, South Dakota
1993-1996	Representative, South Dakota's At-Large District
1987-1992	Representative, South Dakota's 1^st District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Johnson is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. Johnson’s bills have had a total of 36 cosponsors in the 113^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Johnson to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

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

Committee Membership

Tim Johnson sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Economic Policy
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy
- Member, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
- Member, Subcommittee on Water and Power
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to Apr 2014, Johnson missed 402 of 5,474 roll call votes, which is 7.3%. This is worse than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	4	3.2%	83^rd
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	2	5.7%	69^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	112	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	3	2.5%	67^th
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	67^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	1	1.1%	42^nd
2002 Jan-Mar	59	1	1.7%	39^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	5	4.7%	91^st
2002 Jul-Sep	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	2	1.8%	65^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Nov	89	1	1.1%	48^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	37	57.8%	95^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	42	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	93^rd
2005 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	83	2	2.4%	67^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	1	0.9%	35^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	126	100.0%	98^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	112	100.0%	98^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	73	61.3%	98^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	12	12.5%	96^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	3	3.1%	75^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	42^nd
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	2	3.4%	62^nd
2011 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	1	0.9%	45^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	2	7.1%	80^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-Jun	76	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Oct-Dec	80	2	2.5%	59^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	1	1.1%	46^th
2014 Apr-Apr	14	0	0.0%	0^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
GPO Member Guide for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills