Rep. Joseph Hoeffel

Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 13^th District

Hoeffel was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 13^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1999 to 2004.

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Photo of Rep. Joseph Hoeffel [D-PA13, 1999-2004]

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hoeffel is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2004 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 Hoeffel sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1999 to Dec 7, 2004. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Hoeffel was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 2328 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2001 East Willard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the “Robert A. Borski Post Office Building”.

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Does 1 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

Hoeffel sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Arts, Culture, Religion (14%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Education (9%) Commerce (9%) Law (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hoeffel recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1999 to Dec 2004, Hoeffel missed 152 of 3,431 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2004. 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
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	2	0.7%	21^st
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	3	3.0%	25^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	3	4.0%	65^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	2	1.5%	34^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	5	3.3%	62^nd
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	1	0.5%	12^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	3	2.1%	41^st
2002 Oct-Nov	61	1	1.6%	37^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	12	12.8%	94^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	3	1.3%	32^nd
2003 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	9	6.0%	69^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	25	24.0%	97^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	28	12.7%	93^rd
2004 Jul-Sep	161	35	21.7%	95^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	20	34.5%	95^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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills