Rep. Bill Archer
Former Representative from Texas's 7th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Texas's 7th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Archer was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Archer’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Archer to other members of the House of Representatives in the 106th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship
Some of Archer’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5662 (106th): Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000
- H.R. 5588 (106th): To establish the Government Program Evaluation Commission.
- H.Res. 568 (106th): Raising a question of the privilege of the House pursuant to Article ...
- H.R. 4986 (106th): FSC Repeal and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000
- H.R. 4865 (106th): Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2000
- H.R. 4843 (106th): Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act of 2000
- H.R. 4810 (106th): Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000
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Voting Record
From Jan 1971 to Dec 2000, Archer missed 599 of 16,000 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills