Rep. Van Hilleary

Former Representative for Tennessee’s 4^th District

Hilleary was the representative for Tennessee’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1995 to 2002.

Bioguide

Photo of Rep. Van Hilleary [R-TN4, 1995-2002]

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hilleary is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 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 Hilleary sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 19, 2002. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hilleary sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (23%) Science, Technology, Communications (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Law (13%) Social Welfare (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Education (10%) Labor and Employment (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hilleary recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1995 to Nov 2002, Hilleary missed 227 of 4,737 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. 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
1995 Jan-Mar	279	2	0.7%	37^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	16^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	3	1.6%	45^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	1	0.5%	19^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	5	3.1%	63^rd
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	37^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	2	1.1%	35^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	6	2.6%	63^rd
1997 Oct-Nov	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	51^st
1998 Jul-Sep	199	3	1.5%	44^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	78^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	21	11.4%	95^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	3	1.5%	45^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	1	0.7%	20^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	10	3.6%	62^nd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	11	8.5%	89^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	9	8.9%	61^st
2001 Jan-Mar	75	7	9.3%	89^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	3	2.2%	46^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	2	1.3%	37^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	8	5.2%	75^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	11	13.9%	93^rd
2002 Apr-Jun	203	24	11.8%	91^st
2002 Jul-Sep	141	48	34.0%	98^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	37	60.7%	99^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