Rep. David Satterfield III

Former Representative from Virginia's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1980	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Satterfield was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Satterfield’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Satterfield to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^th 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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1965 to Dec 1980, Satterfield missed 282 of 7,081 roll call votes, which is 4.0%. This is better than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	33^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	26^th
1966 Jul-Sep	70	3	4.3%	28^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	94^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	59^th
1968 Jul-Sep	86	7	8.1%	88^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	42^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	22^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	21^st
1970 Jul-Sep	76	13	17.1%	71^st
1970 Oct-Dec	80	13	16.3%	59^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	5	5.6%	22^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	11^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	20^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	5	4.5%	24^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	7^th
1972 Oct-Oct	48	1	2.1%	22^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	81^st
1973 Apr-Jun	188	13	6.9%	45^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	36^th
1973 Oct-Dec	178	4	2.2%	24^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	1	0.6%	4^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	1	0.7%	7^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	4	2.8%	16^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	13^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	8	5.5%	50^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	5	2.6%	30^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	9	3.4%	17^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	3	1.1%	12^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	13^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	5	1.8%	16^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	7^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	1	0.7%	9^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	26	17.4%	89^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	5	1.7%	12^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	11	3.6%	25^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	22^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	31^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	10	4.5%	32^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	3	1.5%	11^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	4	2.1%	12^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	9	6.1%	35^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	14	7.1%	45^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	30	15.6%	79^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	23	34.3%	88^th

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Satterfield [D-VA3, 1965-1980] leaves office as Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Satterfield [D-VA3, 1965-1980] takes office as Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district

Jan 04, 1965