Rep. David Cornwell
Former Representative from Indiana's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Indiana's 8th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Cornwell was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cornwell’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Cornwell to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95th 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 Cornwell’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 1391 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that no ...
- H.Res. 1197 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.Res. 1147 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.Res. 1129 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.Res. 1109 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.R. 11806 (95th): Tertiary Recovery Incentives Act
- H.Res. 1101 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Cornwell missed 191 of 1,516 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills