Sen. John Hickenlooper

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Hickenlooper.

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 (23%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (16%) Energy (14%) Labor and Employment (14%) Health (11%) Commerce (11%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Education (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hickenlooper recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 4952: A bill to establish a Center of Excellence for Dark and Quiet Skies, …
• S. 4850: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Mesa …
• S. 4759: A bill to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to exclude …
• S. 4769: VET Artificial Intelligence Act
• S. 4768: A bill to require an evaluation of the Nutrition Services Incentive Program of …
• S. 4608: Building Youth Workforce Skills Act
• S. 4576: Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Aug 2024, Hickenlooper missed 40 of 1,520 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. 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