David Treen, former Representative from Louisiana's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1980	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Treen was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Treen’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Treen 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 1973 to Mar 1980, Treen missed 790 of 4,616 roll call votes, which is 17.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	26^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	11	5.9%	38^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	30^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	2	1.1%	13^th
1974 Jan-Mar	76	11	14.5%	82^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	10	5.9%	33^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	146	30	20.5%	93^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	9	6.4%	36^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	8	11.9%	80^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	20	10.2%	74^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	185	15	8.1%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1976 Apr-Jun	265	20	7.5%	48^th
1976 Jul-Sep	277	21	7.6%	63^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	3	1.1%	10^th
1977 Jul-Sep	194	10	5.2%	51^st
1977 Oct-Dec	134	10	7.5%	61^st
1978 Jan-Mar	149	15	10.1%	67^th
1978 Apr-Jun	296	35	11.8%	70^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	36^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	4	5.3%	50^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	18	28.6%	92^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	215	93	43.3%	98^th
1979 Jul-Sep	194	142	73.2%	99^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	178	94.2%	100^th
1980 Jan-Mar	111	104	93.7%	99^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 Treen [R-LA3, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. David Treen [R-LA3, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Rep. David Treen

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices