Rep. Todd Akin
Former Representative for Missouri’s 2nd District
Akin was the representative for Missouri’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 2001 to 2012.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Akin is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013 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 Akin sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 1, 2013. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Akin was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 3246 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15455 Manchester Road in Ballwin, Missouri, as the “Specialist Peter J. Navarro Post Office Building”.
- H.R. 3248 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 112 South 5th Street in Saint Charles, Missouri, as the “Lance Corporal Drew W. Weaver …
- H.R. 3247 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1100 Town and Country Commons in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the “Lance Corporal Matthew P. Pathenos …
- H.R. 3337 (112th): Open Burn Pit Registry Act of 2011
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Akin sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (31%) Armed Forces and National Security (19%) Law (14%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Health (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Akin recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6000 (112th): Validating Entitlement Recipients through Indicated Federal Immigration Status Act of 2012
- H.R. 4971 (112th): SAFE Act
- H.Res. 464 (112th): Congratulating the St. Louis Cardinals on winning the 2011 World Series Championship.
- H.R. 3337 (112th): Open Burn Pit Registry Act of 2011
- H.R. 3246 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
- H.R. 3248 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
- H.R. 3247 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
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Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2001 to Jan 2013, Akin missed 459 of 8,568 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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.
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