Sen. John Hickenlooper

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Hickenlooper.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hickenlooper is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 21, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

John Hickenlooper sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security subcommittee Chair

  Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation, Communications, Media, and Broadband, Space and Science, Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Employment and Workplace Safety subcommittee Chair

  Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  Energy, Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, Water and Power subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Enacted Legislation

Hickenlooper was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• S. 1945: John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship Act of 2023
• S. 3814 (117th): Modernizing Biosurveillance Capabilities and Epidemic Forecasting Act
• S. 2962 (117th): COMPETES Act
• S. 2241 (117th): Responsibly and Equitably Change How Auto-charging Rates Get Evaluated Act

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Does 4 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hickenlooper sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Science, Technology, Communications (20%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (17%) Energy (15%) Labor and Employment (13%) Commerce (11%) Health (9%) Water Resources Development (9%) Education (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hickenlooper recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 5401: A bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a …
• S. 5404: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to host regular Summits of …
• S. 5281: REPLACE Act
• S. 5251: Critical Materials Future Act of 2024
• S.Res. 843: A resolution designating October 2024 as “National Learning Disabilities Awareness Month”.
• S. 5030: National Critical Minerals Council Act
• S. 5039: Unearth Innovation Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Nov 2024, Hickenlooper missed 40 of 1,593 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. 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.

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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
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills